[gothic-l] Re: Pronounciation

[Ravi Chaudhary]

--- In gothic-l at y..., "ravichaudhary2000" <Ravi9 at h...> wrote:
> --- In gothic-l at y..., george knysh <gknysh at y...> wrote:
> > 
> > --- ravichaudhary2000 <Ravi9 at h...> wrote:
> > > Ravi>> Let me see if I understand this.
> > > 
> > > In or about the 5th century BC ,there are a people,
> > > whom if ones 
> > > reads an English translation of Herodotus( in the
> > > 21century i.e. 
> > > today), is written as " Getae"
> > > 
> > > In the 4th century St Augustine, sees this  with the
> > > G sound  as  in 
> > > Greek or Go.
> > > 
> > > In the 7th/8th century, the J sound appears.
> > > 
> > > The G sound has  changed to J.
> > > 
> > > The pronunciation of `Getae' is today `Jota.' Or
> > > `Jotah', the J 
> > > sound !
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Do I understand this correctly?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks for the patience:
> > > 
> > > Ravi
> > > 
> > > *****GK: The Getae disappeared from history sometime
> > during the 2nd c. AD. Subsequently the name had a
> > purely literary significance. AFAIK it was never
> > pronounced as a "J". The Greek sound was permanentized
> > in the literature.*****
> >

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Posting in error. my apologies



Please ignore


The g and the J sound are interchangeable


We have

ganpada or Janpada, both meaning democratic republics, but 
prounounced with the "g" for "go" or" J" for "john"  sounds


Part of the confusion for george arises because the J character , 
whenit appears ,in Eaatern Europe at least, is treated as a "y".

Like Sonja, pronounced Sonya

Sonya BTW  means  Pretty, Beautiful in Punjabi/Hindi.

The girl is " Soni" -( pretty)

or "Oh Soni- ya"," Soni- yeh" - "hail O beautiful one."


Fransisc those translations from Prof Taglivani, when you have time.

Ravi

 
Ravi



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