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Article #5304Re: pronunciation of Latin
From: Alwyn Thomas
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 00:00
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Grzegorz Kondrak wrote: > Does it mean that a student of Italian doesn't have to worry about two > e's and two o's ? Is there any dialect that uses just one phoneme for > both? If you want an authentic-sounding pronunciation, it is advisable to imitate the way people of a particular region pronounce the language. I believe the dialects of the extreme south, e.g. Calabrian, Sicilian, have a five-vowel system. Alwyn
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