The Nomads Of The Balkans An Account Of Life And Customs Among The Vlachs Of Northern Pindus Classic Reprint

Author : A. J. B. Wace
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330405796
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Nomads of the Balkans, an Account of Life and Customs Among the Vlachs of Northern Pindus written by A. J. B. Wace and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Nomads of the Balkans, an Account of Life and Customs Among the Vlachs of Northern Pindus In writing Vlach phonetically we have used as simple an alphabet as possible and endeavoured to avoid the use of diacritical marks. The symbols used are to be pronounced as follows: - a, e, i and u as in German, o as a closed o as in the French côte, oa as an open sound as in the French bois, ea to resemble the Italian ia in words such as pianta, ai as in the English i as in mice, ei as the English ay in play, ao and au as the German au, î and û as whispered sounds, the latter like a half uttered English w, â like the English er in better, while is a vowel sound peculiar to Roumanian and its dialects which cannot be described, p and b as in English, t and d as in Enghsh, g as the hard English g as in gape, k as the hard English c in care, y as in yacht, gh (the Greek) like the g in North German words such as Tage, h like the Scottish ch in loch, m and n as in English and n as the English n in finger, l as in English and r as in Scottish, f and v as in English, th (the Greek) as the th in thorough, dh (the Greek) as th in then, s and z as in English, sh as in English and zh as the z in azure, tsh like the English ch in church, and dzh like the English j, 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.