PHONOLOGY CHAPTER I ALPHABET AND PRONUNCIATION. § 2. THE Gothic monuments, as handed down to us, are written in a peculiar alphabet which, according to the Greek ecclesiastical historians Philostorgios and Sokrates, was invented by Ulfilas. But Wimmer' and others have clearly shown that Ulfilas simply took the Greek uncial alphabet as the basis for his, and that in cases where this was insufficient for his purpose he had recourse to the Latin and runic alphabets. The alphabetic sequence of the letters can be determined with certainty from the numerical values, which agree as nearly as possible with those of the Greek. Below are given the Gothic characters in the first line, in the second line their numerical values, and in the third line their transliteration in Roman characters.
		l· Β Γ Λ β U Ζ U Ψ ΐι ī 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ίο a b g d e q z h V i κ Λ H Η Q η π Ί ^ 2O 3° 4° 5° 6o 7° 8o go ιοο k 1 m η j u Ρ - τ S T Υ Γ* X θ Q t 2OO 300 4oo 5oo 6oo 700 8oo 900 S t w f X hr ο -
			1 Wimmer, ' Die Runenschrift,' Berlin, 1887 ; pp. 259-74.