Greek Handwriting

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I had learnt in high school a long time ago how to handwrite Greek characters. Some of them are different in handwriting than in printed letters. Does anyone have link where I can see the Greek alfabet in handwriting? I forgot how to write a few letters.

Here is the difference in the shape between the printed theta and the handwritten one. (It doesn’t look very well, because I am not good in writing with my mouse cursor. :blush: ) This is how we learnt it, there are probably more ways to write this letter.

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Greek has a nice image of handwritten Greek with wee arrows for writing direction. I write the delta, rho and non-final sigma oppositely, but which hardly matters since I’m not writing with a quill (with which drawing up is a problem).

Here is the difference in the shape between the printed theta and the handwritten one.

That’s how I write the theta, too.

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Thanks for the image with the Greek characters. I also write the delta oppositely from how it’s shown in the picture.

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here is another site with animation:

http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/greek_resources/writing_guide/writing_guide.html

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I have a text that uses both Thetas, at times in the same sentence.

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I have a book on Modern Greek from 1921 that has some decent examples of handwriting - I could scan and post those pages if anyone wants.

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I would love to see them.

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I write the round theta myself. I also write the delta like you guys. I write the Pho the same way…opposite of how they show. My Kappa is also a little different than they have. I write it like a V with the left branch being straight up and down, and then I write a left slash coming off the right leg of the V…does that make sense (I guess the best way to put it is it looks like a Nu with a leg)?? I saw it written like that in an old document and I liked it for both it’s odd look and it’s relative ease to write. For the record I write the Eta with two humps.

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Sorry it’s taken me a while - I realise I can’t get access to my webspace from where I am now, so I won’t be able to post the scanned pages for a while unless someone else can host them for me. Apologies.

Zaarin.

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Zaarin, do you know how to upload something on a torrent site? You could post them on http://mininova.org

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I’ve never seen any guide to Greek handwriting suggesting writing rho and delta like on that site. I write lambda with just two straight lines; I used to put the flourishes on it, but I felt that they were a hassle.

I write lowercase non-final sigma starting at the top of the loop, drawing the loop counterclockwise, and then finishing with the line (a style I made up myself). I never liked either of the other two ways of doing it.