[gothic-l] Re: Pronounciation

[Francisc Czobor]

Dear Ravi,

roughly speaking, you did understand it correctly, with the remark
that the "j" sound (like in English "job" etc.) appeared earlier, no
later than the 5/6th century.
It was not a sudden change, but an evolution conditionned by the
palatal nature of the following vowel (e or i), something like:
g > gy > dy > dj > j
The first stage was probably achieved in classical Latin time
(already before 0 AD), fact demonstrated by some phonetic changes in
classical Latin:
Arhaic Latin helu > Classical Latin holu
but celu and gelu remain unchanged (without the evolution e>o
before "l"), that proves the palatal nature of g and c before e
(pronounced probably at that time like gy, respectively ky).
However at that time the "gy" sound was only a slightly palatalized
[g] and was not perceived as something different from normal "g".

Francisc


--- In gothic-l at y..., "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
>
> ***************


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