Excerpt from Handbook of the Modern Greek Vernacular: Grammar, Texts, Glossary Dialect which give a fairly good idea of the multiplicity and variety of modern Greek palms. Annotations are here sub joined in order to render the dialects more easily intelligible. Every one who is at all familiar with how far the alphabetic representations of dialect texts fall short of phonetic exact ness will comprehend the reason why I did not group the pieces in the first part, to which are attached notices of the places of origin (e.g. Epirus, Chios, N axos), under Specimens of Dialect: at best they are to be considered merely as reproductions of a common language with dialect colouring. But in the Specimens of Dialect the purpose was to portray with as much faithfulness as possible the local pato'ls, which is more or less the case in the texts selected. That from Cyprus (iii. 8) is unfortunately very imperfect: there exist but few really reliable texts of modern Greek dialects. The second Specimen of Pontic (iii. 13. B) is taken from my own collections which I made during a prolonged stay last year in Samsun, and which represent predominantly the dialect of a village situate east from Samsun (teerakman). But in order to secure simplicity in the phonetic transcription a peculiarity of the pronunciation has been left unnoticed, viz. That an initial tennis after a preceding nasal is sometimes pronounced as a voiceless media (or also fortis): this I must reserve for detailed investigation on some other occasion. The Glossary is primarily prepared to suit the texts, but embraces also all those words cited or discussed in the Grammar; from it the beginnner may acquire a serviceable stock of words. It was absolutely necessary to attach such a vocabulary, because the only handy dictionary, that of Kind (leipzig: Tauchnitz), is long since antiquated and no longer serviceable, and the modern greek-french dictionary of Legrand (paris: Garnier) would not cover my texts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.