Grčika (Γρκ́ηκα)

Grčika is a way to write Serbo-Croatian with the Greek alphabet created by Tom Patterson. It is used to write the Serbo-Croatian language, and all standardised versions thereof, those being Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian. He was inspired to create this by the fact that Serbo-Croation has a 1:1 character correspondence between Cyrillic and Latin scripts, and, as such, decided to add more to those after seeing the Georgian orthography of the language.

Notable features

Type of writing system: alphabet
Direction of writing: left to right in horizontal lines
Used to write: Serbo-Croatian / Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian
Σ̓σ̓ comes from the Tsakonian language, where it represents that very sound
Γ̇γ̇ comes from an old Albanian alphabet where the digraph γ̇ϳ was used for ɟ, which is macedonian's equvialent of the sound d͡ʑ. Rather than have a digraph out of 2 letters not otherwise used, he decided to chop off yot, and simply have Γ̇γ̇ as a letter representing the sound.
Ͷ is the archaic greek letter tsan, used exclusively in Arcadia. It represented t͡s in Arcadian Ancient Greek.
omega is used over omicron because it has a more distinctive appearence.
Ζ derives from a shortening of the cypriot greek tetragraph ντζι, representing the same sound, into ζι, and the transformation of the iota into a diacritic.
Beta, Gamma and Delta all take their usage from Ancient Greek.

Grčika alphabet

Download an alphabet chart for Grčika (Excel)

Sample text

Σϝα λ̌υδσκα βησ̓α ραγ̇αιυ σε σλωβωδnα η ιεδnακα υ δωστωιαnστϝυ η πραϝημα. Ωnα συ ωβδαρεnα ραζυμωμ η σϝηιεšσ̓υ η τρεβαιυ ιεδnα πρεμα δρυgημα πωστυπατη υ δυχυ βρατστϝα.

Transliteration (Cyrillic alphabet)

Сва људска бића рађају се слободна и једнака у достојанству и правима. Она су обдарена разумом и свешћу и треба једни према другима да поступају у духу братства.

Transliteration (Latin alphabet)

Sva ljudska bića rađaju se slobodna i jednaka u dostojanstvu i pravima. Ona su obdarena razumom i sviješću i trebaju jedna prema drugima postupati u duhu bratstva.

Translation

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

Scripts by Tom Patterson

Anglograms, Futxorkx, Grčika

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