Greek Alphabet and other little ditties

The Koine Dialectus or common dialect is in no case original to itself. It emerges from peculiar and unique process at work in the development of language proper by an evolution familiar in linguistics. Dr. Wagner suggested that History itself is in some measure if not completely dependent upon language. The ideals or memories of a particular dispensation or age are extended to another by means. It seems that by and large memories are fixed to symbols and those symbols represent the memories that are past from one generation to the next. It follows that the more securely a memory is attached to a symbol the more the testimony or story attests to the memory. At the risk of extreme reduction, Cuneiform and Akkadian birth Proto-Canaanite and Egyptian which has bearing in just the way Cuneiform and Akkadian have on the emergence of the Proto-Semitic script. The evolution from Semitic to Greek passes by way of convergence...

Classical Greek takes a very interesting turn with the reign to Alexander the Great. In 333 B.C. Alexander took possession of the orient; his forces had swept into Greek rule the East. Note whenever Alexander conquered he would turn captives into soldiers in this way incurring a greater military capacity. In order to exercise authority over his soldiers it became necessary to have common symbols for the sake of command and comradery - symbols for tactical movements and military strategies. This process contributes to the evolution of Koine - the Common Dialect.
Note over the course of many years scholarship has wrestled with Greek pronunciation having such a corridor of time between then and now and the confusion between intellectuals and commoners. The pure classical language would have no doubt had a different pronunciation than its Koine daughter. Obviously, Homer and Peter spoke distinguished kinds of Greek. To what extent this affects dialect and pronunciation is a matter of debate. One moving through Reuchlin and Erasmus to today's academy. According to Francis Bopp the chief means of reclaiming the original pronunciation was bound up in onomatopoeias. Take for instance the bn . Francis Bopp found references to the sound sheep make in classical Greek and therefore concluded that the b and the n follow the hard b and the short e not the soft v or the long e.