Ancient Greek Vowels

Ancient Greek Vowels. The Semitic Waw became the Greek Digamma voiced labial-velar approximant which Greek eventually lost but Latin retained as the letter F. The ancient Greek long-vowel diphthongs tended to lose their appended iotas and to degenerate into the simple long vowels.

Final stops were lost as in γάλα milk compared with γάλακτος of milk genitive. Ancient greek speakers tended to avoid pronouncing two different vowel sounds in a row. Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet and is.

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Ancient Greek was an Indo-European language spoken in Ancient Greece from about 1500 BC to about 300 BCAncient Greek and Latin are very important languages. The Semitic Waw became the Greek Digamma voiced labial-velar approximant which Greek eventually lost but Latin retained as the letter F. For this phonology I will refer to the Classical Attic dialect. Attic Greek was spoken in Athens the largest city and was thought to be the purest form of Greek.