[B-Greek] Vowels in DAUID

Kevin Riley klriley at alphalink.com.au
Thu Sep 11 00:23:12 EDT 2003


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>[mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Eric Weiss
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>
>This suggests that the convention of placing the breathing mark in GNT
>texts (N-A, USB) over the U in words beginning with AU or EU or HU is in
>a sense wrong, because AU/EU/HU should NOT be considered diphthongs .
>and also suggests that the Erasmian pronunciation convention probably
>should be modified to pronounce U as "v" or "f" when it follows E or A
>or H.
>
>- - -
>Eric S. Weiss
>eweiss at gte.net
>
It is a long standing tradition, one originated for classical texts in which
the EU, etc, may have been E + U - although the consonantal value of 'U'
seems more likely even there.  For classical texts, 'w' is more likely to
have been the value of 'U', as it was in Latin.  The discussion of whether
NTG, or Koine in general, should be taught with a classical pronunciation is
an old one.  Like many old discussions, repeating it doesn't seem to result
in much progress towards an agreed upon solution.

Kevin Riley




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