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Re: [romanceconlang] Re: Latin Question

--- Ar rhespondent li "Etherman23":
> "jemmy-nigh" [...] "ghemmy-nee"!
> 
> So let me get this straight. The first i is
> pronounced with short 
> quality and short quantity, and the second is
> with long quality and 
> long quantity? 

Um. Latin vowels have one quality and two
quantities, so both are [i]; but the first is
[i], and the second is [i:] (long).

> A quick example would be abdi(ca-ti(o

As an aside, we generally use a colon following a
vowel to mark long length (derived from the ASCII
IPA system(s) used in the list).

Padraic.


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