Re: CHAT: Names of Latin alphabet letters

En réponse à Barry Garcia <Barry_Garcia@...>:

> CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
> >I understood the Roman name for <h> was "acca".  If somebody has the
> >little book called _Vox Latina_ about the scholarly pronunciation of
> >Latin and its history they may check that.  It has a chapter on the
> >names of latin letters.  In Brithenig it is called 'ach', /ax/.
>
> Hum.......i've been wondering what the original Latin name was for this.
> Now I know.  I think since it was acca, it might either be "aca" or
> "aga"
> as in Portuguese. I think I like aca, but aga follows the sound changes
> a
> little closer.
>
Well, Reman speakers spell this way (Reman uses the Latin alphabet but <x>):
a /a/
b /be/
c /Se/
d /de/
e /e/
f /Ef/
g /ge/
h /'jaSe/
i /i/
j /ZEt/
k /ka/
l /El/
m /Em/
n /En/
o /o/
p /pe/
q /ku/
r /Er/
s /Es/
t /te/
u /u/
v /ve/
w /wa/
y /y/
z /zEt/

I don't know yet for Narbonósc, but their way of spelling letters shouldn't be
too different from what is known in other Romance languages (does anyone know
the names of letters in Romanian and Sardinian? that might be interesting to
know).

Christophe.

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