Greek – ISO 843 transliteration system
Greek virtual keyboard
The Greek virtual keyboard allows you to enter characters with a click of your mouse. There’s no need to change your keyboard layout anymore. The transliteration of each supported character is displayed on the right side of the character. You can then directly transliterate your text from one script to the other according to the selected transliteration system.
Language overview
Modern Greek (ελληνικά, transliterated in elliniká) belongs to the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European languages family. Official language in Greece and Cyprus, it counts about 15 million speakers. The Modern Greek language is written in an alphabet of 24 letters.
Transliteration system: ISO 843
The ISO 843 standard sets both a transliteration and a transcription system. The principle applied to the standard comes from the Greek transliteration system ELOT 743 (1982), based on the principles of modern Greek pronunciation.
Other transliteration systems for Greek
The other currently supported transliteration systems for Greek are: Greeklish, and UN/ELOT.
Books
Greek Grammar
by Herbert Weir Smyth, editors Benediction Classics (2010)
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Greek: A Comprehensive Grammar of the Modern Language
by David Holton, editors Routledge (1997)
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Guide de conversation grec
by Karin Spitzing, editors Assimil (2010)
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Dictionnaire grec
editors Assimil (2009)
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Greek links
Other supported languages
The other supported languages are: Abkhaz, Adyghe, Altai, Armenian (eastern, classical), Armenian (western), Azerbaijani (Azeri), Bashkir, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Carrier, Cherokee, Chuvash, Erzya, Georgian, Ingush, Inuktitut, Japanese, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Moldovan, Old Church Slavonic, Ossetian, Russian, Serbian, Tamazight, Tigrinya, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Vai, and Yakut.