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In article <1gq0m3INNp2l@coli-gate.coli.uni-sb.de>
simon@fsinfo.cs.uni-sb.de (Julia Simon) writes:
>
>As an Indo-European linguist I've learned that at some time (looooong ago) the
>Romans pronounced it "k". Later it became a fricative or affricate before "e"
>and "i" (as it still is in the modern Romance languages - "s" in French, "ch"
>in Italian and (I think) Rhaeto-Romanic, "th" in Spanish, ...).
>
>                        Julia 8-)
 
It is worth pointing out that it is _not_ true that "the modern Romance
languages" changed /k/ followed by front vowels.  Most of them did.  In
most of them it did, but in (most varieties of) Sard, it remains a stop
initially (and in some varieties medially), as in /kimbe/ 'five',
/kentu/ 'hundred'.   The last I heard "Spanish" spoken, 'hundred' was
/sjiento/:  not all Spanish is Castillian pronunciation.
 
Outside of these picky details, I refer you to Alderson's fine post for
the truth about Latin pronunciation, short of Allen's fine little book,
/vaks laetajn@/.