[Facts] Re: KLUH-tay?
in reply to a message by Dayna
In Ancient Greek the Y was pronounced like the German Ü (U umlaut) or the French U like in "sur"; this is at least what they teach in Germany (maybe the Germans just love their umlaut). It's just the OY (omikron-ypsilon) that was pronounced like OO.
In modern Greek I understand there are lots of EE-sounds around, all the Es (epsilon) and Äs (Eta), the Is (iota) anyway and also the Ys (ypsilon) are pronounced that way. I got the impression that due to all those EE-sounds modern Greek sounds like everybody was smiling all the time, but maybe the Greeks are just such friendly people.Andy ;—)
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Greek Pronounciation  ·  Eirena  ·  9/14/2004, 5:08 PM
Re: Greek Pronounciation of Klytie  ·  Christo  ·  9/15/2004, 2:02 AM
Ahem.....  ·  Pavlos  ·  9/15/2004, 5:22 AM
Re: Ahem.....  ·  Christo  ·  9/16/2004, 8:58 AM
Re: Ahem.....  ·  Nikolas Ramin from Tehran  ·  9/26/2004, 5:53 PM
PS  ·  Pavlos  ·  9/15/2004, 5:25 AM
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Re: Greek Pronounciation  ·  Miss Claire  ·  9/14/2004, 5:51 PM
Re: Greek Pronounciation  ·  Dayna  ·  9/14/2004, 6:38 PM
KLUH-tay?  ·  Eirena  ·  9/14/2004, 6:32 PM
Re: KLUH-tay?  ·  Miss Claire  ·  9/14/2004, 10:12 PM
Re: KLUH-tay?  ·  Dayna  ·  9/14/2004, 10:28 PM
Re: KLUH-tay?  ·  Andy  ·  9/14/2004, 10:51 PM
Re: KLUH-tay?  ·  vazaks@mail.ru  ·  10/16/2004, 3:33 AM
Re: KLUH-tay?  ·  Miss Claire  ·  9/15/2004, 9:24 AM