Re: Hellenish oddities
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, November 25, 2000, 10:24 |
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At 07:41 2000-11-24 +0000, Raymond Brown wrote:
>[ep'ta] and [ok'to] are katharevousa, and [ef'ta] and [ox'to] is demotic.
>Combos of two plosives or two fricatives are sure signs of katharevousa; in
>'pure' demotic we have only fricative+plosive or plosive+fricative.
I thought that in true Demotic both aspirated and unaspirated combos had
become fricative+plosive.
/ B.Philip Jonsson B^)>
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