Re: The Roman alphabet and its original letter names.

Joe wrote:

> On Thursday 13 February 2003 10:43 pm, Nik Taylor wrote:
> > Steven Williams wrote:
> > > So, how _did_ the ancient Romans sing the 'ABC Song'?
> >
> > Vowels were named by their sound, nasals, fricatives, and liquids were
> > /e/ plus the consonant, stops were consonant plus /e/, except that Q and
> > K were /ku/ and /ka/ respectively; y and z were Greek borrowings and
> > were, I think, called "I graeca" and "zeta" respectively.  I think X was
> > /eks/, so:
> >
> > A   /a/
> > B   /be/
> > C   /ke/
> > D   /de/
> > E   /e/
> > F   /ef/
> > G   /ge/
> > H   /he/
> > I/J /i/
> > K   /ka/
> > L   /el/
> > M   /em/
> > N   /en/
> > O   /o/
> > P   /pe/
> > Q   /ku/
> > R   /er/
> > S   /es/
> > T   /te/
> > U/V /u/
> > X   /eks/
> > Y   /y/ or "i graeca"
> > Z   /zeta/
> >
>
> So, basically the same as french or Spanish?
Spanish diferences

b /be/  or /be grande/ here in Peru
c  /se/
f  /efe/
g /xe/
h /atSe/
j  /xota/
l /ele/
ll /eje/
m /eme/
n /ene/
r /erre/ strong trill
s /ese/
v /ube/ or /be tSika/ "be chica" here in Peru
w /be doble/ here in Peru
x /ekis/
y /je/ "ye" or /i griega/
z /Teta/ or /seta/ here in Peru

David Barrow