How would you show pronunciation (for English speakers) of the Latin word vere in writing?
Monday, October 26th, 2009 at
1:28 pm
There are plenty of definitions and pronunciation guidelines online, but I have not been able to find written pronunciation for individual words like a dictionary provides. I believe it would look something like this: vair.ay or veh.reh, but I saw one Latin guideline that said v is pronounced with a w sound. Any help is appreciated!
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It was for many centuries fashionable to pronounce Latin more or less like Italian and if you are singing it, then this is still the thing to do. But at the end of the nineteenth century there was a reformation in the pronounciation of Latin and people were taught to pronounce it as close as possible to the way in which the ancient Romans would have done. Under this reformed method, vere is pronounced "weray".
http://www.ai.uga.edu/mc/latinpro.pdf
http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/pronunciation/Latin_Pronunciation.htm
When I was at school, we had two different pronounciations: the one for the Latin classroom and the one for the music room!
Yes, sometimes the V is pronounced as a W and the double L is pronounced like J or L. It depends on whether the Spanish is from El Salvador or Mexico. Speaking of languages, here’s a fun site for conjugating Spanish verbs, http://www.spaleon.com/index.php.
If you want to know how to pronounce Latin in the way the Romans pronounced it, listen to the Latinum podcast. The Roman pronunciation has been reconstructed after years of hard work analysing inscriptions, and this pronunciation is called the Restored Classical. We have a pretty good idea of how the Romans spoke Latin – many of them were terrible at spelling, and they often wrote the words down how they sounded, not how they should be spelled.
Then we have the Greeks, who wrote down many Roman words, transliterated into Greek letters, as they sounded, so we know what value the Roman letters had. Similarly for other ancient languages, some evidence for Latin pronunciation comes from how the Jews transcribed Latin words into Hebrew letters.
http://latinum.mypodcast.com
The Romans pronounced the v as "w". Hence the English words "wish", and "wine", etc, which in Latin have ‘v’.
In Mediaeval times, the v was pronounced as a ‘v’. This ‘church’ pronunciation is not generally used by academics or secular students of Latin, who tend to prefer the ‘restored classical pronunciation’
http://latinum.mypodcast.com