The most characteristic of the differences between the various region alphabets can be viewed until today in the Latin and Greek alphabets. The former was nothing more than a local variation (Euboean)of a Greek alphabet (the very first of its kind, as the Euboeans were the first to introduce the alphabet)the first colonisers took with them and which became prominent so as to constitute the later 'Latin' aphabet.

That specific Hellenic tribe of Euboea that gave its specific alphabet (and diallect)which was most prominent in the minds of the natives also gave its name (=Graikoi)as a general term by which the natives came to address all Hellenic tribes: Graeci (Greeks).In the Orient the natives did the same having as the most prominent example of Greekness the Ionians, so eventually until today they are known as Yunan.