Re: Ardalang: Rohirrim

Christian Thalmann wrote:

> Does anybody know how all those <eo> diphtongs in the language of Rohan in
> LotR are supposed to be pronounced?  I think there's no mention in the book's
> appendices.  Is it just /eo/ or /E6/ or something like that?
This is Old English, soit is pronounced as Old English:

[Eo], or [eo] if there is an accent on the e.  Essentially all

OE diphthongs are pronounced as simple combinations of the two vowels in
question, with the first vowel the prominent one.  The exception is ea,
where the first vowel is in fact /{/, otherwise written ae-ligature.

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