[B-Greek] Pronunciation of nasal+stop combination

Kimmo Huovila kimmo.huovila at helsinki.fi
Tue Aug 5 11:40:03 EDT 2008


Voiceless plosives /p,t,k/ were increasingly voiced after nasals in the 
Hellenistic and Roman periods, according to Horrocks*. He also 
claims that the voiced plosives /b, d, g/, retained a plosive pronunciation 
after nasals when becoming fricatives in other environments. These processes 
lead to the same pronunciation for NT and ND. Do we find a lot of 
interchanges between these two and if so, when?

When did GG and GK start to be pronounced the same?

Kimmo Huovila

* Horrocks, Geoffrey. Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers. Page 
112



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