Polytonic orthography

The old way of writing ancient Greek, Katharevousa and sometimes modern greek, before the 1980's, when it was replaced by the monotonic orthography. The orthography contains all of the 3 accents (grave, acute and double acute) and the spiritua (lenis and asper) before they were obsoleted. It was considered very complicated for the students since the accents had no significance in spoken modern talk.

Its use nowadays remains only to archaic documents, transliterations of ancient texts or newspapers and formal documents written by conservative people.