[B-Greek] Pronunciation of Upsilon

Charles Johnson cpj5117 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 15 10:16:38 EDT 2008


Thanks to everyone for the advice on upsilon. I tried the methods prescribed
and they yielded a sound that I think is nearly correct. I'm going to need
some more practice and audio reinforcement, but at least now I can hear it
and distinguish it from English vowels.

Charlie Johnson

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Vasile Stancu <stancu at mail.dnttm.ro> wrote:

> 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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> 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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