[B-Greek] How do modern Greeks pronounce Biblical Greek, Col 2:14
Randall Buth
randallbuth at gmail.com
Sat Jan 14 19:16:29 EST 2006
Also, Carlton is right about the process involved in any particular
period of history:
>the letters which were frequently substituted for
>each other. Even when copying from a single ms to a single ms,
>scribes read aloud and made substitutions of letters with similar
>sounds.
Already
from before Imperial Koine times and ever after,
OI was very often written in place of U, and vice versa.
as in ANUGW (for ANOIGW 'I am opening')
or OIEIOS (for UIOS 'son'),
showing both OI=U and EI=I, which illustrates the vowels in the Col
2:14 passage.
Maybe helpful is Pilate's name in many older manuscripts:
PEILATOS and PILATOS
ERRWSO
Randall Buth
On 1/15/06, Randall Buth <randallbuth at gmail.com> wrote:
> >Please assume 'European' vowel sounds; _dth_ represents voiced _th_
> (as >in 'then').
> >Stress is indicated by CAPS.
> >
> >In MG, these words sound like _khi - RO - gra -fon tis DTHOG - ma -sin_ .
> >
> >Hope this helps a little.
> >
> >Peace and blessings to all.
> >
> >Monk James
>
> Good work, James,
> it looks like it might communicate through an English medium.
>
> For the record,
> and showing how close things were 2000 years ago to the modern system,
> the vowel phonemes would have sounded
> (using your ASCII scheme, and adding ''y"
> for a sound of [i] made with rounded lips, like German ü):
>
> _khi - RO - gra -fon tys DTHOG - ma -sin_
>
> This [tys] is close to MG [tis]
> and someone without [y] in their hearing apparatus would often hear it
> as the "same", especially when expecting [i].
>
> ERRWSO
> Randall Buth
>
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