Questions tagged [diphthong]
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What diphthongs are available are Unicode ligatures?
What diphthongs are available are Unicode ligatures?
I already know of æ (e.g., Romæ), œ (e.g., Œneus), and ꜷ (e.g., ꜷdire). Are there characters for the other diphthongs like ei, or eu.
See When is ‘...
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How to indicate a diphthong?
In a previous question of mine, What diphthongs are available are Unicode ligatures?, Joonas Ilmavirta commented:
If you want to indicate a diphthong, there are other means than using ligatures. We ...
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When is ‘ae’ pronounced /ae/?
I like the idea of using ligatures like ‘æ’ and ‘œ’ for diphthongs in Latin, so that the spelling is closer to one letter/character per sound. However, it would not work to write ‘æ’ for everything, ...
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When does the diphthong υι occur in Greek, and when it is pronounced as [yː]?
I'm a bit confused by the information I've seen online about ancient Greek υι: it seems an original diphthongal pronunciation was replaced at some point in Attic Greek by a monophthongal pronunciation ...
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What are the ways in which Greek print might indicate diaeresis?
When two vowel letters that normally form a diphthong, such as αι, are meant to be pronounced as two syllables, how is this normally indicated in modern printing of Ancient Greek?
Is a trema ever used,...
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When is "ei" a diphthong?
Many introductory Latin books will explain that Classical Latin has four diphthongs: ae and au are common, while oe and ei are rarer. (Eu and ui also show up, but if I understand right that's a Greek ...
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Why could initial iota not create diphthongs?
In all the textbooks I have seen, the list of Ancient Greek diphthongs are more or less the following:
αι: /ai̯/
ᾳ: /aːi̯/
αυ: /au̯/
ᾱυ /aːu̯/
ει: /ei̯/ > /eː/
ῃ: /ɛːi̯/
ευ: /eu̯/
ηυ: /ɛːu̯/...
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Compensative lengthening of ε and ο to η and ω in Homeric Greek
In the grammar section of Pharr and Wright’s Homeric Greek section 601, the following is stated:
The loss of one or more consonants in a word usually occasions the lengthening of the preceding vowel. ...
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Do vowels before /j/ make diphthongs?
In my experience, Latin has a short list of diphthongs that are found in native words. This list includes ei /ej/, as in dēinde.
However, there are other vowels that can appear before /j/: see major /...
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Pronunciation of intervocalic EV in Greek words in Roman Ecclesiastical
For example evangelium, which in Greek, and hence in Classical, has an ambisyllabic1 [w:], giving [ɛw:a]. How are this and similar words pronounced in (preferrably sung) Roman Ecclesiastical? Is it as ...
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When did genuine and spurious diphthongs merge?
In Ancient Greek, the diphthongs ει and ου were sometimes considered "genuine" (they descended from ε+ι or ο+υ or the like), and sometimes "spurious" (they descended from ...
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Latin diphthongs, vowel qualities
There is one existing question on the SE (search for 'ae pronunciation'), but there are nothing equal to my interests.
My googling returned to me nothing too.
So, maybe somebody here know:
nowadays ...
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Vowel hiatus and non-diphthong vowel pairs (compared to Romance languages)
Classical Latin's 6 major diphthongs are clear-cut, phonologically speaking. We know ae is pronounced as one phoneme, such as in [ˈsae̯.pɛ], "saepe." However, we often come across words that have 2 ...
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"Ae" pronunciation
In accordance to Wikipedia ae diphtong should be pronounced like /ae̯/. So should I pronounce Graecae (Greek, f., pl.) as /ˈgrae̯kae̯/?
EDIT:
In accordance to Rafael's comment please see the ...
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What is the nature of variation between αι and α in (Pre-)Greek words?
When trying to answer a previous question about the patronymic derived from Asclepius, I came across the following quotation from Beekes in the Wikipedia entry on Asclepius:
The name is typical for ...
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Was -oe- used natively in standard classical Latin, or was every word with -oe- adopted from a foreign or non-standard origin?
Latin has quite a few words with -oe-, such as Poenus and moenia. But I've heard it said that all of those words are either translitterations from Greek -oi- or adopted from non-standard dialects of ...
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Why is pronunciation different in Turku than the rest of Finland?
In Finland ae and oe are both typically pronounced as /e:/ when they belong to the same syllable.
In (and near) Turku the pronunciations are /ai/ and /oi/.
(This excludes, for example, aer and poema; ...
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How do I know when there is synizesis in a verse?
Synizesis is the rare phenomenon where two vowels within a word that normally do not form a diphthong are nevertheless pronounced as such, and hence count as a single syllable in the metre. Under ...
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