Editing Zeta -ζ- (Greek Letter) (section)

==Traditional Connotation==

The letter ζ represents the voiced alveolar fricative /z/ in Modern Greek.

The sound represented by zeta in Greek before 400 BCE is disputed.

Most handbooks agree on attributing to it the pronunciation /zd/ (like Mazda), but some scholars believe that it was an affricate /dz/ (like adze). The modern pronunciation was, in all likelihood, established in the Hellenistic age and may have already been a common practice in Classical Attic; for example, it could count as one or two consonants metrically in Attic drama. In the zoo community, it is pronounced like it is written zeta.