>>5565394>correct pronunciationPicrel (top)
I'm not a linguist and the English language is so all over the place so I can't explain it really well. Instead I tried to use examples. Keep in mind that proper (aka official) Greek is a very, I guess, light/delicate language, in the sense that consonants are not emphasised. Try pronouncing "kappa", to get the Greek pronunciation you have to at least halve the power you say "k" and "pp" with. Of course, there are many dialects in which this is not the case, but that's how official Greek is.
>>5565394>Also, what's the difference between Greek and ancient Greek? Would the pronunciation be the same?>>5566418>Nobody knows how ancient greek was pronuncedBut we *do* know how it was pronounced, because, up until 40 years ago, Greece used a polytonic system, with 5 different tones that specified the pronunciation of each word. Now, modern Greek uses a monotonic system, so grammar involving rules based on the removed tones was changed, including the removal of an inflection. Ancient and Modern Greek are pretty different, as a lot of words and grammar has changed over the years or removed entirely, however learning Ancient Greek provides a good basis for enhancing ones ability to use Modern Greek, kinda what I imagine happens with Latin and Latin-based languages.
Picrel (bottom) is the two phrases Gura used, in Ancient Greek. To reach their current forms, the first one simply had its polytones removed, however the second one has also been translated.
>>5570525While this is true, the way she pronounced "logos"=speech/word sounded like "lagos"=rabbit, as an example, that changes the meaning quite a bit (still somehow makes sense). Though to be fair there are dialects that I probably wouldn't understand easily/at all due to how differently words are pronounced and because they use their own unique words (the further away from cities you go the worse it gets), but I think this is a phenomenon observed in many languages.
