[Mageia-discuss] [OT] pronounciation

Tue Sep 21 21:53:15 CEST 2010

2010/9/21 P. Christeas <p_christ at hol.gr>:
+>
+> With a little remark there: mp3 had not been invented back at those times, so
+> nobody really knows what Hellenic ("greek"[1] ) sounded back in past. So we
+> presume that modern greek is the closest to the ancient language's
+> pronounciation [2]. It is interesting to search that historically, and there
+> has been many theories (like Erasmus's one, which you mention).
+
+Yes, of course. Same with all old languages. We can only go back from
+today's sound using old documents and overall statistic theories how
+languages change with the time, with foreign contacts and travelling,
+etc.
+
+Best sources are religous rites because they tend to cover long time
+spans without being changed. A good example is old Hebrew and
+Hellenic, languages which were used to write the first documents of
+our western religions.
+