[B-Greek] did b-greek have uppercase/lowercase distinction?

Jonathan Walther krooger at debian.org
Thu Dec 23 19:01:44 EST 2004


I'm wondering, when did the Greek alphabet gain its current
uppercase/lowercase distinction?  What did it originally mean?  In
Hebrew there are 3-5 letters with word-final forms.  Given that there
were no spaces between words in Greek either, could the alternate letter
forms have been to show where words started and ended?

I did try to find this out on the web, but didn't find anything.

Jonathan

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