[B-Greek] Getting to know you, Sigma
Curtis Hinson
curtis at curtishinson.com
Thu Feb 16 05:50:07 EST 2006
Greetings, listers,
I have just thought of an obvious and simple question that it never
occurred to me to ask, for some reason. Why do we have two forms of
sigma in Greek? Does anyone really even know? I have been around Greek
for a while now and I never once recall hearing this question asked or
addressed, only taken for granted that it is so.
I have been working on Arabic and it caused me to wonder why Greek only
has this one character that has an initial/medial form plus a final
lunate form, instead of all or none. I suspect the question gets into
linguistic history, but I'm sitting comfortably here so bring it on. I
didn't turn up anything on this in the archive so maybe it's time to add
this to the BGreek megabrain.
Bless the Name
Curtis Hinson
http://curtishinson.com
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