[gothic-l] diphthongs?

[Eric Nash]

Thomas,
>I do have one question, re pronunciation: according to the books on 
>Gothic I've seen (Wright's primer and grammar, and Bennett's 
>"Introduction") it seems to be the academic consensus that in the 
>Gothic of Wulfila "ai" and "au" were open vowels /E/ and /O/, and it 
>is merely an academic convention to use the accents (ái, áu,
>aí, aú) 
	From my reading of Bennet, I understood that "a'i" and "a'u" were
diphthongs, "ai' " and "au' " were short /e/ and /o/ respectively and "ai"
and "au" were long /e/ and /o/.  This was how we read it in my Gothic class
at UCLA as well.
-Eric



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