Re: Some help with Latin
| From: | Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 25, 2007, 13:02 |
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Quoting Edgard Bikelis <bikelis@...>:
> Sanskrit distinguishes long vowels by nature from short,
> even when they both are in heavy syllables, something like CV:CC versus
> CVCC. Is this an audible difference?
I would guess yes - why else would they distinguish it? In any case, such
distinctions are found in other languages, eg. Sw. _väst_ [vEst] "west" vs
_väst_ [vE:st] "hissed (pp)", which are certainly audibly distinct.
Andreas
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