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Re: [romanceconlang] pronunciation



On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:04:50AM -0000, Zebuleon  wrote:
> This may seem a stupid question but I know very little about latin.  
> In the dictionary I have it will mark the short and long vowels in a 
> word. but in many words it will mark some but not all the vowels.  How 
> or what then is the proper way to pronounce the vowels that are not 
> marked are they considered long or short or something else. when a 
> word has both a long and short vowel marked and a third unmarked what 
> is the default pronunciation.  Any remarks would be helpfull.
> 
> Thanks
> Mario

Hmm... in dictionaries where long vowels are marked, but not short ones, the
unmarked vowels are short. But I have no idea what to make of one with
marked long, marked short, AND unmarked. Hmm.

-- 
Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo