[gothic-l] Re: Pronounciation

[ravichaudhary2000]

--- 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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