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Re: [romconlang] Classical pronunciation of -ia/-ium?



Paul Bennett wrote:

On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 17:12:39 +0100, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea@hidden.email> wrote:
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<i> is pronounced as the semivowel /j/ [snip] before a vowel
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It suggests to me it was pronounced /j/ (and thus -/ja/ and -/jum/)

Well, that's what I had thought previously -- though one of the bits you snipped after where I wrote "before a vowel" adds the important caveat "at the beginning of words"! Which -ia and -ium aren't.

Though I had kind of liked the idea of -/ja/ and -/jum/ :) I was trying to figure out how proper classical Latin went here, so I could decide whether to follow it in my "revamped Latin". I think I'd at least move to /-ja/ etc. in descendants of my "revamped Latin" ....

Cheers,
Carl

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