On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 10:07:43 +0000, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: > Latin is a common root to many current languages, and which I think has > a completely deterministic pronunciation. Not really, there are variations both historically/geographically and nowadays. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_spelling_and_pronunciation is quite interesting and mentions e.g. "Since around the beginning of the Renaissance period onwards, with the language being used as an international language among intellectuals, pronunciation of Latin in Europe came to be dominated by the phonology of local languages, resulting in a variety of different pronunciation systems." or "Because of the central position of Rome within the Catholic Church, an Italian pronunciation of Latin became commonly accepted," So for Latin we'd have to agree on one specific pronounciation again. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `-
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