This is basically the "event" example I gave above. I don't think though that it shows that we have this sound combination in English but rather the reverse. We have 'nt' for sure, but we don't have 'vnt'. We need a vowel sound of some kind between the v and n. Perhaps we get very close with the contraction "haven't".Paul-Nitz wrote: ↑November 16th, 2019, 11:27 am πεπαίδευνται is a little tricky, but we do utter this combination in English:seventy ˈsɛvntiA bit off the point, but that final "t" in "seventy" is simply an unaspirated "t."
That's the way I take ντ combinations in Restored Koine,
I prefer to pronounce them with an unaspirated "t" rather than with an English "d."
It's easier to say and, to my ears, it sounds better.
It's really not the ντ combination that I'm at first concerned with but the 'ευν'. I'm happy with with either unaspirated-t or d - I think I've tended toward d for the most part in such combinations.
Thx
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