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Greek Small Alpha
CulturalSeedgreek-alphabet
Construction note
A geometric impression of a lowercase (minuscule) Greek letter.
About this symbol
- Meaning
- The minuscule letter Alpha (sound “a”).
- Culture / origin
- Byzantine Greece (minuscule hand)
- Era
- Greek minuscule from c. 9th century CE
- Historical context
- Lowercase Greek developed from cursive minuscule writing in the Byzantine period and is the everyday Greek book hand today.
Public-domain historical script.
Tags
greekalphabetlowercaseclassical
SVG source
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