A Guide to Pronunciation

Although a can recall a fair amount of Latin, my knowledge of Greek is very limited, and I know absolutely nothing of the Germanic Gallic, Iberian, Phoenician, African, Steppe, and other tongues included in EB minus what I've picked up. I cannot know if I am pronouncing any of these exotic foreign words correctly, however. For this reason I was hoping that there was a small guide to pronunciation of the basic terms in EB somewhere, or that someone could link me to an outside source. Any help on this issue would be greatly appreciated.:egypt:

This website has a great ancient greek pronounciation tutorial: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ancgre...eek_start.html

Now, THAT is great. Thanks for posting it.
Sig updated to include your link!

My advice for pronouncing proto-Germanic words and names; don't. I for one, prize my jaw.

well said. unless you were raised with it as your mother tongue, i dont recommend trying to pronouce most celtic words. one of the most diverse and challenging languages around! being irish i wanted to learn gaelige (an irish variation of gaelic) but was scared away by the sheer vocab.

Well, that's certainly the end-all of the Greek pronunciation debates...that helps all kinds...thanks!

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Originally Posted by Folgore

This website has a great ancient greek pronounciation tutorial: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ancgre...eek_start.html

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Excellent! Thank you very much. That'll keep me busy for quite a while.:book:

The one field in which mankind has progressed since the ancient period, is that speech nowadays requires less jawbreaking tongue moves while it's still comparatively easy to distinguish the words from each other :idea: