Eta + Upsilon diphthong

Randall Buth ButhFam at compuserve.com
Mon Apr 1 05:51:44 EST 2002


shalom Eric,

I'm am still catching up on emails from an upaide down time zone 
from you.

>s this correct, or do these "grammars"
>omit the HU diphthong by accident?

Accident. 
HV is [iv] and [if]

>Even if the HU diphthong does not exist in Modern Greek, I assume from
>Zodhiates that a Greek person who read the Koine Greek NT aloud would
>pronounce HU as "eev/eef". Is Zodhiates correct on this?<

Yes, except that your transcription only makes sense with English "beef" 
for [bif]. Linguists around the world cannot use English spelling for
vowels
because of the fluctuating disparities in English. The vowel sound in 
"please" is normally transcribed [i] =[pliz]

ERRWSO

Randall Buth



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