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Re: [romconlang] Classic Greek Vowels and Declensions

habarakhe4 wrote:


The Classical Greek system of vowels is:

i, i:
e, e:
E:
a, a:
O:
o
u:
y, y:
So the question is, do you remove length first or lower first? 

IMHO it all depends on at what time you want to adapt the Greek
system to some other system.  Also probably not all changes happened
at the same time, e.g. /e:/ is likely to have merged with /i:/
before /E:/ did and before length was lost -- /E:/ probably rising
to [e:] for a time.  NB /oi/ and /yi/ merged with /y:/, and this later
merged with /y/.  There was an /y/ phoneme at least in some dialects
perhaps into early modern times.  Some modern dialects have /u/ rather
than expected /i/ for */y/ at least in some words.

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/BP 8^)
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