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Latin spelling and pronunciation 00:01:07 1 Letterforms 00:01:51 2 Letters and phonemes 00:02:57 2.1 Consonants 00:03:19 2.1.1 Notes on phonetics 00:11:17 2.1.2 Notes on spelling 00:16:00 2.2 Vowels 00:16:09 2.2.1 Monophthongs 00:16:48 2.2.1.1 Long and short vowels 00:18:05 2.2.1.2 Adoption of Greek upsilon 00:18:35 2.2.1.3 Sonus medius 00:19:12 2.2.1.4 Vowel nasalization 00:20:55 2.2.2 Diphthongs 00:22:06 2.3 Vowel and consonant length 00:24:06 2.4 Table of orthography 00:24:15 3 Syllables and stress 00:24:25 3.1 Old Latin stress 00:25:37 3.2 Classical Latin syllables and stress 00:26:24 3.2.1 Syllable 00:26:53 3.2.1.1 Nucleus 00:27:23 3.2.1.2 Onset and coda 00:29:22 3.2.1.3 Heavy and light syllables 00:30:37 3.2.2 Stress rule 00:31:10 3.2.3 Iambic shortening 00:31:36 4 Elision 00:32:02 5 Latin spelling and pronunciation today 00:32:58 5.1 Spelling 00:33:08 5.2 Pronunciation 00:35:10 5.2.1 Post-Medieval Latin 00:35:19 5.2.2 Loan words and formal study 00:35:44 5.2.3 Ecclesiastical pronunciation 00:37:30 6 Pronunciation shared by Vulgar Latin and Romance languages 00:41:24 7 Examples 00:43:36 7.1 From Classical Latin 00:43:52 7.2 From Medieval Latin 00:46:47 8 See also 00:48:03 9 Notes Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: - increases imagination and understanding - improves your listening skills - improves your own spoken accent - learn while on the move - reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. You can find other Wikipedia audio articles too at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuKfABj2eGyjH3ntPxp4YeQ You can upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates SUMMARY ======= Latin spelling, or Latin orthography, is the spelling of Latin words written in the scripts of all historical phases of Latin from Old Latin to the present. All scripts use the same alphabet, but conventional spellings may vary from phase to phase. The Roman alphabet, or Latin alphabet, was adapted from the Old Italic script to represent the phonemes of the Latin language. The Old Italic script had in turn been borrowed from the Greek alphabet, itself adapted from the Phoenician alphabet. The Latin alphabet most resembles the Greek alphabet around 540 BC, as it appears on the black-figure pottery of the time. Latin pronunciation continually evolved over the centuries, making it difficult for speakers in one era to know how Latin was spoken in prior eras. A given phoneme may be represented by different letters in different periods. This article deals primarily with modern scholarship's best reconstruction of Classical Latin's phonemes (phonology) and the pronunciation and spelling used by educated people in the late Republic. This article then touches upon later changes and other variants. |