Re: Latin vowel inventory

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From: "Tristan McLeay" <zsau@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 7:00 AM
Subject: Re: Latin vowel inventory


> On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>
> > However, for centuries it was customary to pronounce Latin as if it
> > were the local dominant language, so in England Latin was pronounced
> > as if it were English, in Italy as if it were Italian, etc.  The
> > English pronunciation survives in many borrowings, and is used for
> > almost all Latin in the legal and medical professions.  The Italian
> > pronunciation was adopted by the Roman Catholic Church and is today
> > often called the Ecclesiastical Pronunciation.  In it, the short/long
> > vowel distinction is not made at all.
>
> So in the English one, was long a pronounced as ay, long e as ee, long i
> as igh? Was long o oo (boot) or oa (open)? And was long u ue (hue) or or
> ow (how)?
a[&]
long a[Ej]
e[E]
long e[i:]
i[I]
long i[Aj]
o[Q]
long o[@u]
u[V]
long u[u:]