[B-Greek] Pronunciation of Upsilon

manuchon1 at free.fr manuchon1 at free.fr
Wed Oct 15 08:33:35 EDT 2008


Hi,

There's an easier way, say "i" like in "it" and simply round your lips, the final sound is [y]. In french, it's the sound that most of the english speaking people struggle with. So if it's difficult at the begining to deal with, don't despair : it will come.

Regards,

Emmanuel
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De: "Vasile Stancu" <stancu at mail.dnttm.ro>
À: "Charles Johnson" <cpj5117 at gmail.com>, b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
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Objet: Re: [B-Greek] Pronunciation of Upsilon

This sound may be obtained as follows:
- prepare yourself to say "u" as in "bull" and set your lips accordingly;
- with the lips arranged in this setting, suddenly change your mind and say
"i" as in "bit";
- the sound you make is what I understand the Greek upsilon should be.

Vasile STANCU

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Subject: [B-Greek] Pronunciation of Upsilon

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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