Re: Latin Pronunciation

["Dana F. Scott" <dfscott@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Perhaps you may find something of interest in the following Survey of Latin
Phonetics:

http://tied.narod.ru/archive/essay4.html

Regards,
Dana

Jacques Guy wrote:

> Dennis wrote:
> >
> > Jorge Stolfi wrote:
>
> > > But, did vowel length play a significant role? I suspect that
> > > constrasting pairs were rather rare, so the loss of that particular
> > > bit would not have made much difference.
> >
> >         The only case I can think of is in the second
> > declension - "femina" = "(the) woman",
> > "femina:" = "by (the) woman".
>
> Here is another:
>
> anus (long a) and anus (short a)
>
> The latter means "old woman", the former... you know.
>
> And then, if you throw in consonants, you have
> annus "year" (short a).

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