1h Ancient Greek Vocabulary

ancient greek vocabulary

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[Eyrynomos]

The truth is somewhere in between I think.Modern Greek pronounciation pronounces many consonants quite differently the diphtongoi are also different and there is no musical stress on the words apart from the facts you mentioned and some others that I surely forget or we do not know.

[aliekous]

....insist on Greek scholars taking up this task of research). One cannot learn to speak a language properly only through books and logical assumptions, let alone when it is about a 2000-year older version of it.

[aliekous]

....that modern greek - provided that one preserves the length of the long vowels, uses the "deep breath" for daseia and the specia pronunciation of Ypsilon (like german or french "u" but more "i" to it) - is the best pronunciation for ancient texts, espescially post hellenistic and byzantine. It is not that I do not value the massive work of non-greek scholars. I simply believe that the spoken tradition and modern local greek dialects should be also taken into consideration (which is why I ....

[aliekous]

I think that the erasmian and the "restored" pronunciation are more distant approaces to the original ancient greek pron. as they were created by scholars who were not in direct contact with the spoken greek language (which is the continuation of the ancient one) and who ignored the koine-byzantine pronunciation (based to "logical" deductions and asumptions). Until a serious research on this delicate issue is done by the academy of Athens or at least by a team of greek academics, I think....

[Eyrynomos]

To make things more complicated is it proper to use the Erasmian accent or a supposed restored one on Koine texts like the New Testament?Koine phonology is almost the same with the present one except the pronounciation of Ypsilon and the diphthong OI.

[Eyrynomos]

.So the current pronounciation is not irrelevant to Classical Greek.

[Eyrynomos]

Correction :gamma before chi was and still is pronounced as "N".The pronounciation we have today started developing even from the Classical ages.

[aliekous]

....To make myself more clear, imagine how could the word "εγχειρίδιο" or the word "ελέγχω" be pronounced in the "restored" ancient greek pronunciation....(eg-che-i-ri-­dio --- e-leg-cho-o). I see different words here, not different pronunciations of the same word.

[aliekous]

...."restored" as the closest to the real ancient Greek pronunciation. No doubt some changes must have occurred in 2500 years, yet I believe these are about the long vowels extended pronunciation and of Y being pronounced as I wrote previously. I mean no matter the political changes and the cultural bias in the Greek peninsula people can't have change a word from "iskhous" to "ishis" (ισχύς) or the word "paideia" to "peedia" (παιδεία)....

[aliekous]

It is beyond doubt that the vast majority of non-Greek scholars and students use the restored (some the erasmian) ancient greek pronunciation, but this by no means proves that this the correct one. It is the Greek scholars' absence in pronunciation researches and their insufficient approach of the matter (agreeing without having made a single research on their owns - I mostly speak for the Academy of Athens - yet not teaching this pronunciation in universities) that have established the....