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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Latin on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Latin in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Before then, the pronunciation of Latin in church was the same as the pronunciation of Latin in other fields and tended to reflect the sound values associated with the nationality and native language of the speaker. [65] Other ecclesiastical pronunciations are still in use, especially outside the Catholic Church.
The IPA gives the option of placing the tone letters before the word or syllable – ˧a˥˩vɔ , ˧˥˩avɔ – but this is rare for lexical tone. Reversed tone letters may be used to clarify that they apply to the following rather than to the preceding syllable – ꜔a꜒꜖vɔ , ꜔꜒꜖avɔ . The staveless letters are not directly ...
Includes a phonetic transcription of a Latin poem representing the English pronunciation of Latin c. 1617, the direct ancestor of the later Anglo-Latin pronunciation. Ommundsen, Peter. "Pronunciation of Biological Latin". Owen, Andrew, Pronouncing the Pater Noster in Modern English Latin taken from Copeman (1992) page 279; Rigg, A.G. (1996 ...
Latin pronunciation, both in the classical and post-classical age, has varied across different regions and different eras. As the respective languages have undergone sound changes, the changes have often applied to the pronunciation of Latin as well. Latin still in use today is more often pronounced according to context, rather than geography.
The database is distributed as a plain text file with one entry to a line in the format "WORD <pronunciation>" with a two-space separator between the parts. If multiple pronunciations are available for a word, variants are identified using numbered versions (e.g. WORD(1)).
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/ks/ is reduced to /s/ before or after a consonant or at the end of words of more than one syllable. Cf. /ˈkalks, ˈsekstus/ > /ˈkals, ˈsestus/. [22] Intervocalically, it sometimes metathesizes to /sk/. Cf. /ˈwiːksit/ > /ˈβiːskit/. Words beginning with /sC/ receive an initial supporting vowel [ɪ], unless they are preceded by a word ...