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I don’t believe texts in Ancient Greek are simultaneously music and sets of mathematical statements. This sounds like a nonsense.
Probably, it was a trick commonly used to impress the public — one...

If you mean the orthography only, then yes, Ancient Greek has a phonetic orthography with a strict correspondence between the letters and the phonemes. That’s not because of the uniqueness of the...

Unfortunately, I don’t speak Ancient Greek. So I can’t be sure, but your phrase sounds like some kind of misconception.
Yes, every natural language has many ‘illogical’ things that appear to be...

No, we also have many letters pronounced like [и] in unstressed syllables:
лиса [л’иса́]
леса [л’иса́]
плясать [пл’иса́т’]
часы [ч’исы́]

Both short and long forms can be used when an adjective or a participle is the predicate:
«Он убит» = «Он убитый», «Он зелен» = «Он зелёный».
But adjectives tend to the long form, while passive...