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On the Pronmiciation of the Greek Language 



By JOHN PICKERING, A. A. S. 



rival of a Greek ship, called The Jerusalem, at Bos 



the year 1814, afforded me an 



pportuiiity 



I had 



long desired, of making some inquiries respecting the language of 

 the Modern Greeks, and of comparing it in some particulars with 



rivalled idiom of their 



people, whose 



are still our models in writing, as their architects and sculpt 



are in the arts. In the course of my inquiries, many th 

 sented themselves to notice, which highly excited 



my 



pre- 

 curi- 



ty, as well as that of some of my friends, and 



terest to the recollections arising from the study of the ancient 

 Greek authors in our youth 5 and, as opportunities of conversing 

 with Modern Greeks are extremely rare in our country, (this heing 

 the only instance of the arrival of a Greek ship in this part of 

 America,) I have thought it would not be uninteresting to the 

 members of the Academy to be possessed of such of the observa- 

 tions I made, as seemed to he most worthy of attention, 



I ought here to state, that my information respecting the Mod- 



ern Greek language and my instruction in the pronunciation of it, 

 are chitfly derived from the supercargo of the ship, Mr. J^icholas 

 CicUtira (or, as he writes it in bis native dialect, t^uoXaog r^ixXi- 



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