@Meaningness Assuming you studied textbooks for ordinaries. Also for Tibetan?
@Meaningness @simplic10 So it'd be very hard to document. I have no idea if any work has been done in that area.
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@Meaningness@simplic10 Actually I'm probably very wrong about this. -
@St_Rev@simplic10 Wiki seems to think it’s pretty well (not perfectly) known, but doesn’t explain how. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_spelling_and_pronunciation … -
@St_Rev@simplic10 Yeah, I kind of don’t think of that as “Latin,” but… -
@Meaningness@simplic10 It's what I had in mind re: liturgical Latin. -
@St_Rev@simplic10 Uh, yes, of course; I was thinking of *pagan* liturgical Latin… -
@Meaningness@St_Rev Predecessor to Rus, Ukr, Bel was Old Church Slavonic. Many more phonemes than modern langs, incl nasal sounds -
@Meaningness@St_Rev which are somewhat preserved in Polish. Anyway pseudo OCS is used in Orth church but pronounced much like modern langs. - 2 more replies
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