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When were /k/ and /q/ first distinguished in the Greek or Latin alphabet?
Nowadays, in languages which make a distinction between velar and uvular stops, it's common to use K for the first and Q for the second. This is best-known nowadays from transcriptions of Arabic names,...
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How many vowel qualities did Oscan have?
Oscan was an Italic language related to Latin, which died out somewhere in the early centuries CE. It's notable for being used in the Fabulae Atellanae and for being the source of various loans into ...
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What was the sibilant in θ?λασσα?
The word θ?λασσα thálassa "sea" is spelled in various different ways, with different letters replacing the sigmas: some dialects had a tau, for example, while others had a theta.
Do we know (through ...
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How did σσ differ from σ?
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I think it's highly likely that originally Greek σσ had a distinct sound from σ which made it a closer match to a foreign [?] than σ would have been, which is why it ...
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