the evidence against the reconstructed pronouncation these accounts need to be included in the main article chrys c caragounis the error of erasmus and un greek 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 proto sinaitic based alphabets including phoenicians hebrew and greek contained letters which were allophones for proto semitic fricatives and plosives semitic linguisitic theory which states that the original hebrew non fricative mediae and dasea became fricatives before bc and that the original hebrew fricative mediae and dasea became breaths by bc thus proto semitic 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