Eugene Oh wrote:
>>
>> It still has not happened in some of the spoken dialects, in particular
>> in Cypriot Greek (we had a young Cypriot girl staying with us several
>> years ago) - but I understand some other modern variants still retain
>> geminate consonants (or did retain them till recently).
[snip]
>
> Ah interesting -- I'd thought that all dialects in the modern language
> had simplified the geminates already.
They hadn't - geminates were still heard in some other areas besides
Cyprus last century. But of course the Athenian standard will
undoubtedly have spread and how many other areas besides Cyprus that
still retain any gemination I simply do not know.
How is either EAK/GSF reflecting
> this, then?
Philip will have to tell you about GSF - but as for EAK, my feeling at
the moment is that the geminate pronunciation should be the preferred
one, but not mandatory.
> Side question: does anyone know if the Cypriot dialect sounds
> different, prosodically etc., from the standard Athenian?
I suspect it may well do - but I do not have enough information to say
so definitely.
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