[B-Greek] strange looking pi?

Curtis Hinson curtis at curtishinson.com
Mon Sep 25 19:45:44 EDT 2006


Well, this is fun and interesting.  Perhaps this information is of interest:

http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/unicode/letters.html#lunatesigma

This guy (Nick Nicholas) is a research linguist/programmer for TLG.  The 
information was of additional interest to me because some months back I 
asked if anyone knew why Greek even has terminal and internal forms of 
Sigma, instead of having positional forms for all letters like Arabic, 
or none at all, like English.

Also Dr Nicholas seems to promote the use of monotonic so that makes him 
cool in my book.  :-D 

Bless the Name
Curtis Hinson
http://curtishinson.com


Jim Darlack wrote the following on 9/25/2006 3:15 PM:
> While looking at an old printed edition of the LXX, some friends and I
> came across a strange character that represents the letter pi.
>  
> The character basically looks like a lowercase omega with a line across
> the top.
>  
> See the jpeg here: http://www.oldinthenew.org/images/pi.jpg (image of
> Cardo font glyph U+03D6).
>  
> As far as I can tell, there's no rhyme or reason why this character is
> used rather than the regular pi.
>  
> For instance, both the traditional pi, and this other pi are both used
> in this scan (http://www.oldinthenew.org/images/pitxt.jpg). Compare v.
> 19 with the regular pi to vv. 26/27, 11 & 12 with the strange pi. The
> strange pi is only used when it begins a word, but the regular pi is
> used to begin a word as well. In 26/27, both characters are used in the
> same word - PROSWPA.
>  
> Note also the strangely formed beta in the first line in FOBHQENTHS and
> the second gamma in ANAGGEILWSI.
>  
> Curious,
>  
> Jim
>  
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