Part I: Letters, Sounds, Syllables, Accent

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• The Letters
  • The Alphabet
  • Vowels and Diphthongs
  • Breathings
  • CONSONANTS
    • TABLE OF CONSONANT SOUNDS
  • ANCIENT GREEK PRONUNCIATION
  • VOWEL CHANGE
    • TABLE OF THE CHIEF VOWEL GRADES
  • COMPENSATORY LENGTHENING
  • SHORTENING, ADDITION, AND OTHER VOWEL CHANGES
• EUPHONY OF VOWELS
  • CONTACT OF VOWELS AND HIATUS
  • CONTRACTION
    • TABLE OF VOWEL CONTRACTIONS
  • SYNIZESIS
  • CRASIS
  • ELISION
  • APHAERESIS (INVERSE ELISION)
• EUPHONY OF CONSONANTS
  • DOUBLING OF CONSONANTS
  • CONSONANTS WITH CONSONANTS
    • STOPS BEFORE STOPS
    • STOPS BEFORE M
    • CONSONANTS BEFORE N
    • N BEFORE CONSONANTS
    • CONSONANTS BEFORE Σ
    • Σ BEFORE CONSONANTS
  • CONSONANTS WITH VOWELS
    • CONSONANTS BEFORE I AND E
    • DISAPPEARANCE OF Σ AND Ϝ
    • ASPIRATION
    • VARIOUS CONSONANT CHANGES
• FINAL CONSONANTS
• MOVABLE CONSONANTS
• SYLLABLES AND THEIR QUANTITY
  • QUANTITY OF SYLLABLES
• ACCENT: GENERAL PRINCIPLES
  • ACCENT AS AFFECTED BY CONTRACTION, CRASIS, AND ELISION
  • ANASTROPHE
  • CHANGE OF ACCENT IN DECLENSION, INFLECTION, AND COMPOSITION
  • PROCLITICS
  • ENCLITICS
• MARKS OF PUNCTUATION