AtticGreek
A rigorously defined orthography for texts in the archaic Attic alphabet.
Highlights:
- implement the MID Orthography interface, with semantic tokenization of text in Attic Greek
- uses Unicode in form
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whererever codepoints are defined - mimics print publication practice insupplementing missing characters with the ASCII code point sumarized below.
Code point | Meaning |
---|---|
h | rough breathing |
ê | ε with circumflex |
ô | ο with circuflex |
In the Attic alphabet, all iotas are adscript. There is no character for smooth breathing: the aspirate (rough breathing) is explicitly marked, so that word-initial vowels are unaspirated by default.