Re: Orthography of palatalized consonants

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@...>
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