Questions tagged [aspiration]
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"Words of rustic origin" like "anser"
According to Allen in his Vox Latina, initial h- "was omitted...in words of rustic origin", like anser. No doubt anser originally had an initial h- (cf. Sanskrit haṃsas, "swan"; ...
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When did 'ph' start to be pronounced like 'f'?
I learned from Nathaniel's answer to my previous question that 'ch', 'th' and 'ph' were aspirated voiceless stops in classical Latin.
In my experience many contemporary speakers of Latin pronounce 'ph'...
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Were aspirations pronounced longer in dialects influenced by semitic languages?
In general, /h/ and similar sounds are quite frequent in semitic languages, in Hebrew it even forms the definite article. So, speakers of semitic origin would seem to me more likely to pronounce the ...
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Is there a difference between ΚΘ and ΧΘ?
According to what I'd previously learned, aspirated stop clusters in Ancient Greek only had a single aspiration, at the end of the whole cluster. The reason for writing χθών "earth", φθόγγος "sound" ...
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Were voiceless stops (p, t, c, qu) aspirated in Classical Latin?
In English, the voiceless stops/plosives (p, t, k, "hard" c) are aspirated, particularly when beginning a word. That is, speakers release a burst of air when saying pop, tea, kaluha, or coffee (put ...
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How to read αἱμύλιος or when to aspirate
I've tought myself to read the Greek alphabet, and it is still confusing to read and identify "h" sound in the ancient Greek. For example, Athena talks about Calypso that she has "αἱμύλιοι λόγοι" in ...
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Is rough vs smooth breathing predictable?
Recently, I came across an excerpt from a scholium on Dionysius Thrax:
Διὰ τί τὸ "η" πρὸ τοῦ "τ" ψιλοῦται, ἐν δὲ τῷ ἧτα τῷ ὀνόματι τοῦ στοιχείου δασύνεται; Ἐπειδὴ παρὰ τοῖς ...
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Were 'th' and 'ch' aspirated in classical Latin?
I have been taught that 'th' and 'ch' were pronounced just like 't' and 'c' in classical Latin, with no aspiration.
The answer to this earlier question confirms that 't' and 'c' had indeed little or ...
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