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--- In romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com, Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@f...> wrote: > Yes. But note one thing: We know that long and short vowels in > Latin had different qualities only because of the mergings they > suffered of in Vulgar Latin after quantity disappeared as a > phonemic feature. But in "correct" Classical Latin, or Latin as > spoken during the time of the Roman Republic, long and short vowels > always had the same quality (namely, they were always tense). That's the way I'll treat them then. Thanks. > Well, as for the last "o", it's not marked for length because it's > a well-known ending (nominative -o, genitive -onis). You should > somewhere have a list of those endings with length marks indicated. > Just report those length marks yourself :))). I'll have to see if I can find such a list on the net since my dictionary doesn't have one. That would be quite valuable, since my case inflections almost all come from Latin.