(3) Dialects of Classical Greek: Æolic, Attic, Doric, Ionic. See Stephanus: “Thesaurus,” Salmasius, Hermann.
(4) Later Greek: “χοινή,” “the common language”; Byzantine; Alexandrian (of the Septuagint); Scriptural (of the N. Test.); Cretan, &c. Lex. by Sophocles, 1871. See [Hellenic].
Greenlandish.
A dialect of Eskimo, spoken in Greenland, the most E. part of Arctic America. See Kleinschmidt: “Grammatik,” 8vo., Berlin, 1851; “Efterretninger om Grönland,” by Paul Egede.
Grimm’s Law.
A name for that peculiarity of speech, first systematised by Jacob Grimm, a celebrated German philologist, by which some letters serve as equivalents for other letters, by natural laws of speech, in languages derived from a common original. ☞
Gröningen.
A sub-dialect of Frisian in Holland. See Swaagmann: “Annales Acad.: Gröningen,” 1825.
Guachi.
American: spoken in the province of Matto-Grosso, Brazil. See Spix and Von Martius: “Reise in Brasilien,” München, 1823-31.