Koine Greek phonology | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-17

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Koine Greek phonology


00:00:17 1 Overview
00:02:02 2 Issues with reconstructions
00:04:42 3 Sample reconstructed phonological systems
00:04:53 3.1 Boeotian, 4th century BC
00:06:01 3.1.1 Short vowels
00:06:21 3.1.2 Long vowels
00:06:48 3.1.3 Diphthongs
00:07:08 3.1.4 Stop and former-stop consonants
00:07:47 3.1.5 Other consonants
00:08:01 3.1.6 Accentuation
00:08:14 3.1.7 Sample phonetic transcription
00:10:01 3.2 Learned pronunciation, 4th century BC until early Roman period
00:10:45 3.2.1 Short vowels
00:10:53 3.2.2 Long vowels
00:11:34 3.2.3 Diphthongs
00:12:07 3.2.4 Stop consonants
00:12:29 3.2.5 Other consonants
00:12:58 3.2.6 Accentuation
00:13:12 3.2.7 Sample phonetic transcription
00:15:16 3.3 Egyptian Greek, mid 2nd century BC
00:15:35 3.3.1 Vowels
00:17:03 3.3.2 Diphthongs
00:17:27 3.3.3 Stop and former stop consonants
00:18:06 3.3.4 Other consonants
00:18:21 3.3.5 Accentuation
00:18:33 3.3.6 Sample phonetic transcription
00:20:08 3.4 Popular pronunciation, 1st century BC &#8211; 2nd century AD
00:20:40 3.4.1 Former diphthongs
00:21:19 3.4.2 Stop and former stop consonants
00:21:52 3.4.3 Other consonants
00:22:15 3.4.4 Sample phonetic transcription
00:24:19 3.5 4th century AD
00:25:07 3.5.1 Vowels
00:25:41 3.5.2 Former diphthongs
00:25:56 3.5.3 Stop and former-stop consonants
00:26:25 3.5.4 Other consonants
00:26:33 3.5.5 Accentuation
00:26:45 3.5.6 Sample phonetic transcription
00:29:01 4 Diachronic phonetic description
00:29:11 4.1 Loss of vowel quantity distinction
00:30:01 4.2 Transition to stress accent
00:30:51 4.3 Diphthongs
00:30:59 4.3.1 Spurious diphthongs
00:32:24 4.3.2 Short-first-element i diphthongs
00:34:54 4.3.3 Short-first-element u diphthongs
00:36:28 4.3.4 Long-first-element i diphthongs
00:37:45 4.3.5 Long-first-element u diphthongs
00:38:29 4.4 Single vowel quality
00:41:13 4.5 Loss of aspiration
00:42:09 4.6 Consonants
00:48:03 5 See also



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The Greek language underwent pronunciation changes during the Koine Greek period, from about 300 BC to 300 AD. At the beginning of the period, the pronunciation was almost identical to Classical Greek, while at the end it was closer to Modern Greek.