Chalcidian alphabet

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Chalcidian alphabet

writing system

Also known as: Chalcidic alphabet

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Also called:: Chalcidic

Related Topics:: Greek alphabet

Chalcidian alphabet, one of several variants of the Greek alphabet, used in western Greece (Évvoia) and in some of the Greek colonies in Italy (Magna Graecia); probably ancestral to the Etruscan alphabet. See Greek alphabet.