Ancient greek to english alphabet9/22/2023 The table, especially the all-important Classical Greek pronunciation column, is incomplete I ran out of patience.(TOW rhyming with COW, TAW rhyming with LAW) I've rearranged the alphabet to put sort-of rhyming letters together, but all letters are there. The Wikipedia page on Pronunciation of Ancient Greek in teaching has more details.įor sake of completeness, here's a (very incomplete) table showing the pronunciation in American English, British English, Ancient Greek, and Modern Greek. This pronunciation underwent some change along with the rest of English during the Great Vowel Shift, and a re-reconstruction in the mid-19th century brought it back in line (incompletely) with Ancient Greek. So your question is actually about why the English pronunciation of Greek letters, and the answer is that it is based on (but not always actually very close to) the reconstruction of the Classical Greek pronunciation by Erasmus in 1528 and by John Cheke and Thomas Smith around 1540, which were adopted in schools. The pronunciation of Greek letters by scientists isn't very different from the pronunciation of the Greek letters in the respective countries: American scientists pronounce them pretty much the same way the general American population does, and so on.
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