The Beta Code

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The Greek Alphabet

Beta CodeGreek (lower and upper case)
Aalpha
Bbeta
Cxi
Ddelta
Eepsilon
Fphi
Ggamma
Heta
Iiota
Kkappa
Llambda
Mmu
Nnu
Oomicron
Ppi
Qtheta
Rrho
Ssigma (medial and final)
Ttau
Uupsilon
Vdigamma
Womega
Xchi
Ypsi
Zzeta
|iota subscript
'apostrophe
*upper case (following character is upper case)
-hyphen
,comma
.period
:raised dot (colon)
;question mark
_dash
)smooth breathing
(rough breathing
/acute accent
=circumflex accent
\grave accent
+diaeresis

Accents and diacritical marks are written directly after the coding for the character. When upper case the accent and breathing precedes the letter.

*(ella/s (Hellas) *(/aimwn

mh=nin a)/eide, qe/a, *phlhi+a/dew *)axillh=os ou)lome/nhn, o(\s muri/' e)/qhke ...

e)gw/ ei)mi to\ a)/lfa kai\ to\ w)/mega, to\ prw=ton kai\ to\ e)/sxaton

h(/kw *di/os pai=s *dio/nusos ...

e)gw\ d' o)fei/lw le/gein ta\ lego/mena, pei/qesqai/ ge me\n ou) panta/pasin o)fei/lw

o( a)nece/tastos bi/os ou) biwto\s a)nqrw/pw|

a)/nqrwpos politiko\n zw|=on

kai\ dh=t' e)to/lmas tou/sd' u(perbai/nein no/mous;

ou) ga/r ti/ moi *zeu\s h)=n o( khru/cas ta/de.

h( glw=ss' o)mwkx' h( de\ frh\n a)nw/motos

ou) dei= gargali/zein dra/konta koimw/menon.

*(hra/kleis