[B-Greek] How do modern Greeks pronounce Biblical Greek?

Justin Buol vonbuol at gmail.com
Fri Apr 8 21:16:33 EDT 2005


Hi,

For what it's worth, I went on a trip to Greece and Turkey during
January, and my tour guide during our Greece portion was a native
Greek, and when she read from inscriptions or any ancient Greek for
that matter, it was always with her Modern Greek accent and
pronunciation.

Justin


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Justin Buol
Senior
Bethel University


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> In modern Greece and Cypress, when modern (demotic) Greek-speaking students
> study Biblical or Attic Greek, do they use their native pronunciation, or do
> they use Erasmus's pronunciation that's usually taught everywhere else?
> 
> (I'm guessing that they use their native pronunciation.)



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