Beginner Pronounciation

[mynekoears]

Thanks so much! this will help A LOT! Thanks again :)

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "llama_nom" <600cell at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "mynekoears" <mynekoears@> wrote:
> >
> > I just joined this group begins Im trying to teach myself 
gothic.  I 
> > stumbled upon this website,:
> >  http://members.terracom.net/~dorothea/david/gothic/index.html
> > 
> > And am on lesson two.  I find it very intresting, and that 
website 
> is 
> > helpful.  However, it doesnt tell me the correct pronouciation 
of 
> the 
> > words.  Does anyone know a site that has the correct 
pronouciations? 
> > Thanks.
> 
> 
> Ah, if only I did...  There are a few uncertainties over Gothic 
> pronunciation.  Still, the experts agree on a broad outline.  
There's 
> a basic uncluttered explanation in Joseph Wright's "Grammar of the 
> Gothic Language", which is a good place to start.
> 
> 
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/goth_wright_about.html#i
ma
> ges
> 
> See page 4 onwards.  Use the scanned pages (tiff or png); the HTML 
> versions are done automatically and haven't been proofread yet, so 
> they're a bit garbled.  You might also find the "Gothic Online" 
course 
> useful.
> 
> http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/eieol/gotol-TC.html
> 
> Although, as you can see from my recent posts to this group, it's 
not 
> always as clear and logical as it could be.  In contrast to David 
> Salo's course, this takes its examples from the actual Gothic 
texts 
> that have survived.  If you read German, there's Wilhelm 
> Braune's "Gotische Grammatik".
> 
> 
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/goth_braune_about.html#i
ma
> ges
> 
> See page 1 onwards.  This has more detail than Wright and explains 
> more of the reasoning behind the reconstructed pronunciation, as 
well 
> as citing more differing viewpoints.  Braune is more cautious in 
some 
> ways and leaves some questions open without expressing a 
preferrence.  
> Another German book is Wilhelm Streitberg's "Gotisches 
Elementarbuch".
> 
> http://www.wulfila.be/lib/streitberg/1920/
> 
> See page 44 onwards.  Lots of interesting detail and a somewhat 
> different interpretation of the evidence.
>










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