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In a message dated 3/27/02 08.38.09 PM, ray.brown@FREEUK.COM writes:

>I thought Finnish shared with Latin long & short /a/, /e/ ,/i/, /o/ and
>/u/.  But the diphthongs surely give Quenya vowels a very un-Latin feel
>-more like Ancient Greek or (dare I say it) Finnish.
    Talking of Greek... do to havin' few books that have current IPA (if at
all) on Greek, I am not too clear on what exactly was/is the vowel
inventories of Greek in the various phases of its development (i.e.,
Classical Greek, Hellenistic Greek/_koine_, Byzantine Greek, etc.). My
websurfing got me conflicting and erroneous transcriptions &/or didn't have
IPA.


Hanuman Zhang  {HANoomaan JAHng} /'hanuma~n  dZahN/
~§~
Sometimes the difference between noise and music is all in your head

"I like the fact that listen is an anagram of silent." ~ Alfred Brendel

_NADA BRAHMA_= < from Sanskrit > "sound is god[head]"/"god[head] is sound"

anavriti shabdat => "Liberation by sound."

    OM ... Om Tat Sat... Tat Tvam Asi... OM

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