The evidence against the reconstructed pronouncation  These accounts need to be included in the main article  Chrys C Caragounis  The error of Erasmus and ungreek pronunciations of Greek Filologia Neotestamentaria   Chrys C Caragounis  Development of Greek and the New Testament Mohr Siebeck Th Papadimitrakopoulos          Athens  Dionysios Thrax description of the sounds of the mediae  BC which implies that they cannot have been anything but fricatives Semitic Linguisitic theory which implies that all protoSinaitic based alphabets including Phoenicians Hebrew and Greek contained letters which were allophones for protoSemitic fricatives and plosives Semitic Linguisitic theory which states that the original Hebrew nonfricative mediae and dasea became fricatives before  BC and that the original Hebrew fricative mediae and dasea became breaths by  BC thus protoSemitic fricative g stopped being represented in the written language by  BC but was still recognisable as modern Greek gamma in the spoken language and represented as fricative gamma in the Septuagint translation of the Hebrew bible made in  BC and later became a breath in the spoken langauge