@simplic10 School courses for ordinaries. Independent reading of textbooks, linguistics books, and Tibetan texts for that.
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@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. -
@Meaningness@St_Rev As for old langs, you'd be surprised what can be reconstructed from rhymes, descs of 1 lang in another... - 1 more reply
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