Developed from the Phoenician script, the Greek alphabet was the first to have separate symbols for both vowels and consonants. It first appeared in the 9th century BC. Even though it was adapted when the language changed, it still keeps much of its original shape. It is not only used to write the greek language, but as scientific and technical symbols and labels. You can find the characters on this linguistic heterogeneitic poster announcing Slavs and Tatars’ exhibition “Long Legged Linguistics” on the island of Samos.
