[B-Greek] A new student to Greek with a question

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Wed May 18 06:12:16 EDT 2005


 
On Wednesday, May 18, 2005, at 00:11AM, Wayne Leman <wayne_leman at sil.org> wrote:

>> At one time there was page that showed how to transliterate the Greek so 
>> it
>> could be read by all.  I was unable to find that page so I hope I am doing 
>> this
>> correctly.  As I say I am a new student to Greek so this is a very simple
>> question to most of you.
>
>Johnny, click on the first link at the bottom of this message, the one to 
>the B-Greek home page. Then scroll about halfway down the page. There you 
>will see the section titled "Reading and responding to messages" which gives 
>the transliteration scheme preferred for this list.

Wayne is pointing to a clear and very useful diagram on the home page that shows standard
correspondences. A fuller account of the transliteration scheme is the final item in the 
FAQ, which is also accessible at the same home page for the list:

        http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/faq.txt  (note that metalab.unc.edu = www.ibiblio.org)


Carl W. Conrad
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