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NickErtel Author

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iPad polytonic greek keyboard doesn't have a circumflex?

I'm in an Ancient Greek class and I use my iPad for everything that I do at school. I was excited when I realized that the iOS supports Greek as an international keyboard! Additionally, I use a bluetooth keyboard, therefore I can utilize the "polytonic greek" hardware keyboard setting. This works much better for ancient greek.

Everything is great, however I can't seem to find the "circumflex" accent. This is very important to the language. As far as I know, there are only 3 accents (and 2 breath-marks) in koine greek. I thought it was weird that all of them are available except the circumflex.

After further investigation, I realized that the English keyboard has circumflex (alt + i), except this doesn't help me. A circumflex is positioned on top of a greek vowel. It wont let me select the circumflex under the English keyboard then switch over to Greek. Overall, I find it ironic that the English keyboard offers a circumflex (though we don't use it in our spelling) but the Greek keyboard doesn't have it (though it's a major part of their language).

Any help or advice would be much appreciated. Thanks!

iPad 2, iOS 5.1.1

Posted on Jun 8, 2012 1:45 PM

17 replies

Mar 25, 2013 11:48 AM in response to NickErtel

If you're interested in a software solution for typing greek polytonic using iPad, there's an application on the AppStore, named "Greek Polytonic" (I found it typing "πολυτονικό" in Greek in the search area), that costs about 4-5 euros, and gives you the opportunity to type using the greek software keyboard, adding on top of it all the necessary symbols (´,`,῀,᾽,῾,ι,¨) for polytonic typing. It's perfect for me, (I'm an Ancient Greek Highschool teacher in Greece), and I find myself using it more often than the polytonic keyboard on my MacBook, since it's much faster.

Tom Gewecke

Level 10

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Mar 25, 2013 12:00 PM in response to tsoukadaris

tsoukadaris wrote:

If you're interested in a software solution for typing greek polytonic using iPad, there's an application on the AppStore, named "Greek Polytonic"

Very useful, thanks! In the US Store it looks like this is called Write Greek Polytonic and costs $4.99.

iPad polytonic greek keyboard doesn't have a circumflex?