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Re: Classical pronunciation of -ia/-ium?



--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea@c...> 
wrote:

>> 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" ....

Well, since the /j/ pronunciation *was* current in
vulgar Latin I can't see what's stopping you.
After all if it's *your revamped* Latin it's your
prerogative, isn't it?

/BP