millnerlondon Tetraglot Newbie United Kingdom latinum.org.uk Joined 6205 days ago 16 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English*, Latin, Modern Hebrew, French
| Message 41 of 45 31 December 2012 at 3:19pm | IP Logged |
Most of the people in Europe who can speak Latin are registered at SCHOLA , a Latin
language social network. No-one has trouble understanding anyone else. In academic
circles restored classical pronunciation is the norm, and is increasingly the universal
standard. In the UK it is the standard pronunciation.
http://schola.ning.com
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Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5567 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin
| Message 42 of 45 31 December 2012 at 4:51pm | IP Logged |
To save Evan advertising his own YouTube site - his Conversational Latin is a great way
to fill up a few minutes of your day :-
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL95011C593729A9B4
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maxval Pentaglot Senior Member Bulgaria maxval.co.nr Joined 5075 days ago 852 posts - 1577 votes Speaks: Hungarian*, Bulgarian, English, Spanish, Russian Studies: Latin, Modern Hebrew
| Message 43 of 45 15 January 2013 at 6:47pm | IP Logged |
A question: how is ei (dativus of is/ea/id) is correctly pronounced: as one syllable like
/'ɛj/ or as two like /'ɛi:/?
In general, how to know if in a word ae, oe, au, eu, ui is a diphthong or not? I think
that if one of the vowels is long, than it is not a diphthong, but I am not sure.
Edited by maxval on 15 January 2013 at 6:49pm
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Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4846 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian
| Message 44 of 45 15 January 2013 at 7:39pm | IP Logged |
It's "eī", so the correct pronunciation would be ['ɛi:] or ['ei:], depending on how you pronounce 'e'.
Your assumption about diphthongs in general is right, although according to German pronunciation conventions 'ae' and 'oe' are never pronounced as diphthongs, but as [ɛ:] and [ø:].
Edited by Josquin on 15 January 2013 at 7:41pm
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Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4670 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali
| Message 45 of 45 16 January 2013 at 4:59pm | IP Logged |
In Italy they pronounce Latin as if it were Italian :(
veni vidi vitʃi
Edited by Medulin on 16 January 2013 at 5:00pm
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