Greek latinization guide

Hellenic languages
Only the first two, the umlaut and acute accent, are commonly used in Modern Greek. The marks related to pitch are used in liturgical registers, such as Katheravousa, but the others are only used in Historical Greek.

Non-Hellenic languages
Some languages have used the Greek alphabet despite not being closely related. Now, this is only done for languages and dialects spoken in Greece and for recording a few languages that are long extinct. Languages that have alphabets directly deriving from Greek with little change aren't listed.


 * Albanian
 * Used for southern dialects outside of Greece until 1908. Dialects in Greece still use it, but rarely.
 * Bactrian
 * An older Eastern Iranian language extinct since about 1000 CE.
 * Daco-Thracian languages
 * Includes Dacian and Thracian. Extinct for thousands of years and with few remains.
 * Gagauz (including Rumelian/ Surguch)
 * Now uses the Latin alphabet, and had used the Cyrillic alphabet from the late 1800s-1996.
 * Gaulish
 * Switched to Latin alphabet by 50 BC. Has been extinct for thousands of years.
 * Iberian
 * Extinct for thousands of years with somewhat few remains. More often used the Italic alphabet.
 * Ossetian
 * Only for one instance of Old Ossetian, but it's the oldest record of it.
 * Phrygian
 * Extinct for thousands of years with few remains.
 * Sephardi (Ladino, Djudezmo Judeo-Spanish)
 * When used in Greece, which hasn't been common for a century.
 * South Slavic languages
 * South Slavic languages used the Greek alphabet before they became distinct from each other. They all use the Cyrillic alphabet today and have done so since the 900s. Note that the Slavic Macedonian language used the Greek alphabet, while the Hellenic Macedonian one never did.
 * Turkish
 * Used for the Karamanli Turkish dialect, whose speakers were displaced into Greece in 1923. Has used the Latin alphabet since the 1930s, when Turkish spoken elsewhere did the same.
 * Urum (Greek Tatar)
 * A Tatar language spoken by people with a Greek background. Uses the Cyrillic alphabet and has done so since 1927.

Every single language used a slightly changed version of the Greek alphabet for their differing sound systems. Nonetheless, the changes are usually uncommon and follow the contemporary Greek pronunciation. Letters and marks that were removed entirely are not listed here.