![]() In the polytonic orthography of Greek, alpha, like other vowel letters, can occur with several diacritic marks: any of three accent symbols ( ά, ὰ, ᾶ), and either of two breathing marks ( ἁ, ἀ), as well as combinations of these. In Modern Greek, vowel length has been lost, and all instances of alpha simply represent the open front unrounded vowel IPA. ὥρα = ὥρᾱ hōrā Greek pronunciation: "a time".Where there is ambiguity, long and short alpha are sometimes written with a macron and breve today: Ᾱᾱ, Ᾰᾰ code: ell promoted to code: el. In Ancient Greek, alpha was pronounced and could be either phonemically long () or short (). Letters that arose from alpha include the Latin letter A and the Cyrillic letter А. Alpha is derived from the Phoenician letter aleph, which is the West Semitic word for " ox". ![]() In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of one. Alpha / ˈ æ l f ə/ (uppercase Α, lowercase α Ancient Greek: ἄλφα, álpha, or Greek: άλφα, romanized: álfa) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. ![]()
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