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Re: Orthography of palatalized consonants

From:Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
Date:Sunday, January 16, 2005, 15:35
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:32:01 -0600, kcasada <kcasada@...> wrote:
> This convention of doubled letters reminds me that I just learned that New > Testament Greek doubled the gamma to represent the sound English spells as > "ng"; does modern Greek still do this?
Kind of: |gg| stands for [Ng] in modern Greek; while I'd interpret 'the sound English spells as "ng"' as merely [N]. That is, |gg| in Greek is the "ng" of "finger", not the "ng" of "singer" (to use the usual example.) (|gk| can also be [Ng], but is possibly more commonly [g] -- and, rarely, [Nk].) Cheers, -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> Watch the Reply-To!