[Mageia-discuss] [OT] pronounciation

[Jochen Schönfelder]

Ahoi!

On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:53:15 +0200
Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 2010/9/21 P. Christeas <p_christ at hol.gr>:
> >
> > With a little remark there: mp3 had not been invented back at those times,
> > so nobody really knows what Hellenic ("greek"[1] ) sounded back in past. So
> > we presume that modern greek is the closest to the ancient language's
> > pronounciation [2]. 

Sorry to comment on this, and please don't nobody start a flame on this,
but as I'm living in an area of the world where this argument obviously isn't
true, I'd like to give some background on this:

- I'm a German native speaker, where the pronunciation sounds like *well*
  German :)
- the "old dialect" which is a form of "Plattdeutsch" here sounds way more close
  to English for certain letters.

The discussion of pronunciation of ancient Greek seems rather lengthy to me,
but those two links suggest that there also might be several changes in
pronunciation during the last few thousand years, as is the case also in most
other languages:

- http://www.foundalis.com/lan/grkalpha.htm
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_phonology#Onomatopoeic_words

So.. just let everyone pronounce it as he thinks.. :) (as already suggested
elsewhere :)


cheers! :)