Typing in polytonic Greek

 

For more details on typing polytonic Greek, use the 'Search this blog' function and look for my three posts on polytonic Greek: input 'polytonic'.

Step 1

Enable polytonic Greek on your system.  Try the following:

Find SETTINGS.  

Go to TIME & LANGUAGE.  

Go to LANGUAGE & REGION.

Click on  ADD A LANGUAGE.

You will need to scroll through a long list, but should eventually be able to find both 'Greek' and 'polytonic Greek'.

If that procedure doesn't work on your system, look for anything having to do with 'control panel', 'settings', 'keyboard', 'language', etc.

Step 2

To switch from English to Greek:  Either click and pull down from 'ENG' to 'ΕΛ' on the taskbar, or use the Windows + Space bar combination to toggle back and forth.

Here is the usual keyboard layout:

Step 3

Here are the combinations:

acute accent                            ;      (followed by) vowel            ά

grave accent                            ]     vowel            ὰ

circumflex accent                    [     vowel            ᾶ

smooth breathing                    '     vowel            ἀ    

rough breathing                       "    vowel            ἁ

iota subscript                            {    vowel            ᾳ

diaeresis                                    :     vowel            ϊ, ϋ

acute accent, smooth breathing         /    vowel        ἄ

acute accent, rough breathing           ?     vowel        ἅ

grave accent, smooth breathing        \    vowel        ἂ

grave accent, rough breathing           |    vowel        ἃ

circumflex and smooth                        =    vowel       ἆ

circumflex and rough                           +    vowel       ἇ

acute and iota subscript        ctrl alt q      vowel       ᾴ

grave and iota subscript       ctrl alt  ]       vowel       ᾲ

circumflex and iota sub.       ctrl alt  [        vowel      ᾷ 

smooth, iota subscript          ctrl alt '        vowel      ᾀ

rough, iota subscript             ctrl alt "       vowel      ᾁ

acute, smooth, iota sub.        ctrl alt /       vowel     ᾄ

acute, rough, iota sub.           ctrl alt ?      vowel    ᾅ

grave, smooth, iota sub.        ctrl alt \     vowel     ᾂ

grave, rough, iota sub.          ctrl alt  |     vowel     ᾃ

circum., smooth, iota sub.     ctrl alt =      vowel    ᾆ

circum., rough, iota sub.        ctrl alt +      vowel    ᾇ

diaeresis and acute*                 `                 ι or υ     ΐ, ΰ      

diaeresis and grave*                  ~               ι or υ     ῒ,  ῢ  

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*  On my keyboard these two symbols (the backtick and the tilde) are located immediately to the left of '1'.