I think the pronunciation is quite good. Not your classical Attic Greek pronunciation but it shouldn't be since the stele is from a later time and from Anatolia where people would have spoken a Ionic dialect originally.
Hi, are you saying this with a some linguistic expertise ?
As a Greek without much background in linguistics etc I noticed a some pretty
strong mistakes (to my ear) and since the original is pretty understandable to me
I assume (potentially mistakenly) that the pronunciation can't have changed THAT much.
She pronounces ai as 'aee' but ai definitely an 'ɛ' sound (as in head: /hɛd/) in modern greek
She then pronounces 'meden' as mɛdɛn when it should be midɛn (η is an ee sound, at least in modern geek)
and she puts a strongish h in holos (ὅλως) which again seems like a person without any greek knowledge reading the latin alphabet version of the word and assuming how it's pronounced...
she says zɛn instead of zeen/zin
So again, as a modern greek with no particular knowledge of how ancient pronunciation worked,
this was pretty bad to my ears..
If you know more than me please correct me, it would be great to know
It sounds very close to the Attic Greek (4th Century BC Athenian) pronunciation I learned at school. The version recorded on Wikipedia sounds more like Modern Greek.
B1FF_PSUVM|7 years ago
(Only noticed it the second time I looked ...)
tuomosipola|7 years ago
fifnir|7 years ago
As a Greek without much background in linguistics etc I noticed a some pretty strong mistakes (to my ear) and since the original is pretty understandable to me I assume (potentially mistakenly) that the pronunciation can't have changed THAT much.
She pronounces ai as 'aee' but ai definitely an 'ɛ' sound (as in head: /hɛd/) in modern greek
She then pronounces 'meden' as mɛdɛn when it should be midɛn (η is an ee sound, at least in modern geek)
and she puts a strongish h in holos (ὅλως) which again seems like a person without any greek knowledge reading the latin alphabet version of the word and assuming how it's pronounced...
she says zɛn instead of zeen/zin
So again, as a modern greek with no particular knowledge of how ancient pronunciation worked, this was pretty bad to my ears..
If you know more than me please correct me, it would be great to know
DonaldFisk|7 years ago