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Pronunciation Greek English ... as does a 9th- or 10th-century psalm translation fragment. ... ("script theta") is a cursive form of theta ...
Theta (UK: / ˈ θ iː t ə /, US: / ˈ θ eɪ t ə /) uppercase Θ or ϴ; lowercase θ [note 1] or ϑ; Ancient Greek: θῆτα thē̂ta [tʰɛ̂ːta]; Modern: θήτα thī́ta) is the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet, derived from the Phoenician letter Teth 𐤈.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Greek on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Greek in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Archaic letter denoting separate pronunciation, rather than as a diphthong, with a normal or low pitch ῧ: Upsilon with diaeresis and circumflex: Archaic letter denoting separate pronunciation, rather than as a diphthong, with a high or falling pitch Ῡῡ: Upsilon with macron: Archaic letter denoting a long vowel Ῠῠ: Upsilon with breve
The digraph th was first introduced in Latin to transliterate the letter theta Θ, θ in loans from Greek. Theta was pronounced as an aspirated stop /tʰ/ in Classical and early Koine Greek. [2] th is used in academic transcription systems to represent letters in south and east Asian alphabets that have the value /tʰ/.
In his Vox Latina: A guide to the Pronunciation of Classical Latin, William Sidney Allen remarked that this pronunciation, used by the Catholic Church in Rome and elsewhere, and whose adoption Pope Pius X recommended in a 1912 letter to the Archbishop of Bourges, "is probably less far removed from classical Latin than any other 'national ...
The voiceless dental non-sibilant fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages.It is familiar to most English speakers as the 'th' in think.Though rather rare as a phoneme among the world's languages, it is encountered in some of the most widespread and influential ones.
Ancient Greek phonology is the reconstructed phonology or pronunciation of Ancient Greek.This article mostly deals with the pronunciation of the standard Attic dialect of the fifth century BC, used by Plato and other Classical Greek writers, and touches on other dialects spoken at the same time or earlier.