[B-Greek] Choice of transliterations for "David"?

Trevor Peterson 06PETERSON at cua.edu
Sat Aug 23 21:42:23 EDT 2003


>===== Original Message From "Eric Weiss" <eweiss at gte.net> =====
>This raises a question for me: Since modern Greek pronounces AU and EU
>as av/af and ev/ef, is it possible that this was also done in Koine
>times?

Isn't it actually a bilabial (rather than labio-dental)? Isn't beta also 
pronounced as a bilabial fricative? If that's the case, there would be no 
difference in pronounciation between the two spellings.

Trevor Peterson
CUA/Semitics




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