06-23-2012, 04:31 PM
Well, I had a lengthy guide to actual period accurate soundings but kept getting 404.
So I'll just summarise. Spatha should equal sbat(h)aa e.g the p is medial to a b (softer than in our language) the th is NOT fricative and the final vowel in long. Oh and all vowels are very open like Greek or Italian (though ignore Italians accentuation) and the /s/ is voiced exactly how it is in Greek too.
Good luck with that. I'm not even going to open the can of worms that is the other words though out of all these Tarbicus' examples are perhaps the most accurate. It doesn't matter though, did you grow up mono lingual only speaking English? yeah you'll never get these meditteranean/asiatic soundings down then. Plenty of professional Classicists only get it after years and years in this case.
Out of all the modern European languages I can think of, Greek is the only one to be able to render these phonemes repeatedly with accuracy. Oh and final nasals were often elided too btw hence the myriad problems we face in reconstituting texts.
Good luck...I'd personally just ignore any pedant telling you off.
So I'll just summarise. Spatha should equal sbat(h)aa e.g the p is medial to a b (softer than in our language) the th is NOT fricative and the final vowel in long. Oh and all vowels are very open like Greek or Italian (though ignore Italians accentuation) and the /s/ is voiced exactly how it is in Greek too.
Good luck with that. I'm not even going to open the can of worms that is the other words though out of all these Tarbicus' examples are perhaps the most accurate. It doesn't matter though, did you grow up mono lingual only speaking English? yeah you'll never get these meditteranean/asiatic soundings down then. Plenty of professional Classicists only get it after years and years in this case.
Out of all the modern European languages I can think of, Greek is the only one to be able to render these phonemes repeatedly with accuracy. Oh and final nasals were often elided too btw hence the myriad problems we face in reconstituting texts.
Good luck...I'd personally just ignore any pedant telling you off.
Jass
