How to write in Greek?

2 Comments

1. vilgessuola says:

   August 31, 2010 at 2:00 am

   If you want ‘Gabe’ to be read by a Greek as something approximating to the English pronunciation it would have to be written ”Γκέιμπ” with an umlaut over the ‘ι’, which I don’t know how to do on this keyboard.

   There is no single letter in modern Greek to correspond to the English ‘g’. The sound /g/ as in Gabe is written ‘γκ’, ‘or ΓΚ’ in capitals. There’s no single letter for English ‘b’ either – the sound /b/ as in Gabe is written ‘μπ’ or ‘ΜΠ’ in capitals. So:

   1. ΓΚ
   2. γκ
   3. ΓΚΕΙΜΠ
   4. γκέιμπ
   5. Α
   6. α
   7. ΜΠ
   8. μπ
   9. Ε
   10. ε
2. byteofk says:

   August 31, 2010 at 2:00 am

   It all depends if you want the sound "gabe" to be written out, or the letters "g", "a", "b" and "e". The latter would be pronounced "gah-beh" in Greek.

   ΓΑΒΕ
   γαβε

   I don’t know how the diphthong "ay" is transliterated into Greek.