Author : W. J. Purton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331838824
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (388 download)
Book Synopsis Pronunciation of Ancient Greek (Classic Reprint) by : W. J. Purton
Download or read book Pronunciation of Ancient Greek (Classic Reprint) written by W. J. Purton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Pronunciation of Ancient Greek A few words are necessary touchingithe system of trans literation adopted by the translator. As regards the consonants little difficulty presented itself. He was able here simply to adopt the transliteration used by the author, only making the necessary changes of y for j, ch for tsch, j for dzh, and so on, according to the different values of the letters in German and English. With regard to the vowel sounds however his course was not so plain. As, in spite of the labours of Mr Sweet and Mr Ellis, no artificial system of phonetic representation has obtained sufficient acceptance to be really familiar to English scholars, he has resolved to retain the vowels with what may roughly be called their continental values. The alternative plan, namely to represent them by their approximate English equivalents, presented great difficulties. To take an instance: to represent the continental long i sound by 66, not to speak of its cumbrousness, labours under the additional disadvantage that the short sound must still be represented by i, thus obscuring the identity of the two sounds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.