t>f the Greek L 



as: 



The Mphabet is pronounced by the Modern Greeks as fol 



lows : 



Names of 

 the ietters* 



^ veetah 

 V gammah 



/ dheltah 



epsiloa 

 ^ zeetah 



? 



eetah 



$• th eetah 

 I y 6 tall 

 K k appah 



A lamvthah 



(the th being 

 fioundeil 



the word 



^ 



mee 



'nyee 



Powers nf 

 the letterf. 



/' 



V. 



S 



Before «, o, ty, the y sounds as our 5: does before the cor- 



which is usually called the 



dh, 



e 



z^ 



responding Knglish vowels j 



hard sound of g. Eut before £ and /, and the diphthongs 

 having their sound, it is pronounced like our t/j tor exam- 

 ple, ysgoct; would be pronounced ya-ras ; and y/uf^ty yie^ 

 nomay. Before another y, or ». |, Xi it takes the sound of/?. 



or (as Walker calls it in English) the Jlat sound of f^, as in 

 our word this, Tlie power of the S maj be convcnientij 

 represented by dh^ in order to distinguish it from that of $-^ 

 which has the sharj} sound otth^ as in thin. 



in mety nearly, or in there* 



eej or like ^ in the word me; but, for distinction's sake^ it 

 may be represented by ee. 



th^ in thin.* See the remark above on the letter J. 



i in machinej mariney &c. 



k f but before tlie vowels s and /, and the diphthongs having 

 the same sound with those vowels, it partakes of what 

 Walker calls in English, the «' softened" sound of the gut- 



turals, as if it were followed by the ictter y. TIius 

 pronounced 'kja; J^/x«;a{, dhee-kyaos. 



KXi is 



as m V 



this. J J 



L Before *, f , «, 6>^ it has the common English sound of I ; but 

 before /, and y, and the diphthongs which are pronounced 



nounced ^lyeemos.* 



>iOtf4AU 



pro 



m. 



n 



before *, f, 0, « ; but before /, v, f<, &c. it has the sound of 

 n in the foreign words sd^nior^ bagnioy &c. j which may 

 e denoted by 'ni/.| 



♦ I do not find this distinction in the sound of A (depending on the vowel which fol- 

 lows it) noticed by any of the old writers or tiic m.-dern traveilera : Hut Mr. CicUtira as- 

 sures me, it is universally observed in Greece, The Captain of The Jerusalem also uniform- 

 ly observed it in reading- to me. 



f This distinction in \ht sound of the y appears to be equally unnoticed, hy writers 

 and travellers, with that of the A ; but Mt. C assures me it also is universal j and the Cap- 

 tain likewise uniformly observed it. 



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