[B-Greek] Pronunciation of Upsilon
Andrew Ball
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Tue Oct 14 16:45:24 EDT 2008
Perhaps the ü refers to a pronunication like German ü?
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Charles Johnson <cpj5117 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been trying out Randall Buth's Imperial Koine pronunciation, but I'm
> stuck on the vowel upsilon as well as the omicron-iota diphthong. His guide
> gives it in IPA as [y] which is the close front rounded vowel. I haven't
> actually been able to find a sound file in a format, nor do the examples
> I've found seem particularly helpful. I'm guessing it's not something I'm
> used to distinguishing in my General American dialect.
>
> I'm also confused because he sometimes refers to it as u (with two dots over
> it.) I'm not sure if this is a different system, but in IPA the two dots
> refer to centralization of the vowel, which would seem to contradict it
> being the front vowel.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Charlie Johnson
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