Perhaps the most well-known of the lost Greek letters is Digamma. Shaped like an F or a modern-day gamma with an extra stem, Digamma represented the “w” sound. Its use was widespread in early dialects ...

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The Suda, the massive tome written by a Byzantine scholar around the year 1100, was one of the world's first encyclopedias ...

Laconic Greek, the dialect once spoken by the ancient Spartans, is one of the most fascinating examples of linguistic ...