New Testament Greek Charts for Global Learners 4 R. Aschmann — April 22, 2020 Classical Greek Pronunciation System (5th Century BC)10 Vowels Diphthongs 6 Consonants front unrounded bial front long rounded central short unrounded back short rounded V + [i] V + [u] long V + [i] V + [u] bila -den tal ve lar

Two tables are given below, one for consonants and one for vowels. The sounds of the Modern Greek language are shown in cyan-colored cells. Other cells that are not colored contain IPA-recognized sounds that are not found among the Modern Greek ones. Finally, darker-colored cells are sounds that cannot be generated by the human vocal system.

μ followed by π, ν followed by τ, and γ followed by κ or γ. At word-boundaries: [n p] → [mb], [n t] → [nd], and [n k] → [ŋg] The ingma ( [ŋ] ): when it appears. Palatalization. Silencing of unstressed vowels between unvoiced consonants. Disambiguation of some …

24/02/2006 · The Greek alphabet has 24 letters, some of them representing sounds that are not part of the English language. To create sounds not included in the alphabet, two letters are combined. For example: the hard d sound is made using "nt," the b sound is created by putting together "m" and "p,"

Finally, Greek has two phonetically affricate clusters, and . Arvaniti (2007) is reluctant to treat these as phonemes on the grounds of inconclusive research into their phonological behaviour. The table below, adapted from Arvaniti (2007, p. 25), displays a near-full array of consonant phones in Standard Modern Greek.

A "g" is an upside down" L", an "L" is an upside down V, . A "th" sound is a O with a small horizontal bar in the middle of it. A semicolon; is a question mark in Greek, they put periods where we would put commas in writing sums.

Every Greek word beginning with a vowel carries a so-called ‘breathing’ mark above the vowel.10 These marks have the appearance of an English single quotation mark. Diphthongs receive their breathing mark on the second vowel. There are two types of breathing marks: ` ‘rough’ breathing mark (e.g., a`) o` lo,g oj( h` zwh.( ou-toj