The Lost Letters of the Greek Alphabet

The Lost Letters of the Greek Alphabet

Early Greek alphabet painted on the body of an Attic black-figure cup. Today, there are missing letters in the Greek alphabet. Credit: flickr / Dan Diffendale CC BY-SA 2.0 The Greek alphabet has changed in many ways over the course of its existence. This is hardly surprising, given that the Greeks have been using it for nearly three millennia. One way in which it has changed is that some letters that used to exist in the Greek alphabet are now m…