[B-Greek] Pronunciation rules

Eric Weiss papaweiss1 at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 5 19:41:38 EDT 2005


Randall Buth wrote:

"Even modern speakers might be able to accommodate
this, by speaking "modern 'plus' two vowels". In fact,
at the end of the Roman Period they would only have to
add one vowel, ü-psilon, which does not conflict with
or take up any space from the modern language. It
doesn't get much better than this. And it's not so
hard when reading a written text, and something that
even feels good when reading a dialect where HMAS and
UMAS need to be different."

So, by the end of the Roman period, the eta had become
an "ee" sound, but both upsilon and the omicron-iota
diphthong were still ü (French "u") - or had the
omicron-iota diphthong also become "ee"?

Eric S. Weiss




		
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