[B-Greek] Pronounciation: drawing up a list of principles
Timothy S. Nelson
wayland at wayland.id.au
Fri Jan 15 01:43:00 EST 2010
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Nikolaos Adamou wrote:
>
> Vasile STANCU
>> 1. Do I need to employ different pronounciation systems for Homer, Herodotus, Plato,
>> LXX, NT, patristic literature (for example), respectively?
>
> Of course not, the sound of the language did not change, even if we
> have some adjustments evolutions and clarifications,
According to the link below, there are some fairly significant
differences between "Historic Attic Pronunciation" (which I'm assuming is the
Classical Greek of Homer) and "Historic Biblical Pronunciation" (which I'm
assuming is Koine.
http://www.biblicalgreek.org/links/pronunciation.php
If you look at, for example, the letters β/B δ/D γ/G θ/Q φ/F χ/X you
will notice that they're different.
HTH,
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