Re: Quick Latin pronunciation question
| From: | Tristan McLeay <conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 25, 2008, 6:31 |
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On 25/05/08 16:13:27, Eugene Oh wrote:
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> "Radius, radii" is an example. And "-ii-" words I presume should be
> more or less plural-only in English.
Oh of course...
> If I'm not mistaken they're pronounced as sequences of the vowel. I
> suppose one could detect a faint glide in between if one so chose.
> Then again I'm not necessarily correct. But that's how I pronounce my
> Latin. I'd like to be corrected too, if I'm wrong.
But how did it interact with length? Was one element or the other
invariable long? (and if so, was it consistently one or the other --- I
notice that English treats the first vowel of "continuum" as long, but
the second of "radii"). Were they necessarily distinct from a long
vowel? (if not, that could explain "vacuum"). Was length completely
independent of this issue?
--
Tristan.
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