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Help[Facts] Re: Pronunciation of Charikleia?
in reply to a message by tibby
Thank you very much for taking the time to explain the reasoning behind the ancient Greek IPA pronunciation that you provided! All those details make your approach much more understandable and legitimate, whereas the previous post seemed rather doubtful, what with it being so brief and nothing matching up with both Behind the Name (BtN) and Wikipedia. It really seemed like the IPA pronunciation was basically just pieced together on the spot, I'm sorry to say. But now we know that it actually comes from a solid background, i.e. your university education in ancient Greek!
I am not inclined to think that Wikipedia is wrong, as everything is neatly cited/referenced. The problem most likely lies in the education of ancient Greek in Germany and other European countries, as the pronunciation taught is "heavily skewed towards the phonological system of German or the other host language":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation_of_Ancient_Greek_in_teaching#Germany (in English)
In other words: yes, there indeed are differences in the pronunciation of ancient Greek among the different modern languages! I guess that might at least partially explain why your IPA pronunciation was essentially not accepted by BtN: it is too influenced by German, whilst BtN probably exclusively uses a system of more English-influenced IPA pronunciations for ancient Greek. That would certainly make sense, what with BtN being an English website that is first and foremost geared towards native speakers of English.
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I am not inclined to think that Wikipedia is wrong, as everything is neatly cited/referenced. The problem most likely lies in the education of ancient Greek in Germany and other European countries, as the pronunciation taught is "heavily skewed towards the phonological system of German or the other host language":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation_of_Ancient_Greek_in_teaching#Germany (in English)
In other words: yes, there indeed are differences in the pronunciation of ancient Greek among the different modern languages! I guess that might at least partially explain why your IPA pronunciation was essentially not accepted by BtN: it is too influenced by German, whilst BtN probably exclusively uses a system of more English-influenced IPA pronunciations for ancient Greek. That would certainly make sense, what with BtN being an English website that is first and foremost geared towards native speakers of English.
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