Expertlatin
- How do you pronounce C in Latin?
- Do Chinese use Latin alphabet?
- How do you pronounce V in Latin?
- How do we know how Latin was pronounced?
How do you pronounce C in Latin?
c before e, i, y, ae, oe is pronounced ch: coelo (cheh-loh); in all other cases, c is pronounced k: cantus (kahn-toos). cc before e, i, y, ae, oe is pronounced tch: ecce (eht-cheh).
Do Chinese use Latin alphabet?
Main Systems of Chinese Romanization
The romanization of Mandarin Chinese, or Mandarin romanization, is the use of the Latin alphabet to write Chinese. Chinese is a tonal language with a logographic script; its characters do not represent phonemes directly.
How do you pronounce V in Latin?
According to a consensus of Latin scholars, the letter V in ancient Latin was pronounced as [w]. This seems to make sense, because there was no distinguishing between V and U, so the letter V could mark either the vowel [u] or its semivocalic counterpart [w] (much like with the letter I).
How do we know how Latin was pronounced?
Knowledge of how Latin was pronounced comes from Roman grammar books, common misspellings by Romans, transcriptions into other ancient languages, and from how pronunciation has evolved in derived Romance languages.
