![]() ![]() The latin C kept its k -pronunciation before the letters L and R ( examples: clime and crater) and before the vowels U and O.īefore the vowel A, the latin C went to t ʃ-pronunciation, later on, like in modern french language, even to ʃ-pronunciation.īefore the vowels E, I & Y to ts -pronunciation like in german or even to s -pronunciation in french or in english language. Only during Middle-Ages, indo-european languages invented the pronunciations as voiceless post-alveolar fricative. Romans didn't know pronunciations like english charm or french charme. In the context, please also see the new latin alphabetical numeration.Īfter invention of the new latin G, the greek zeta is shifted at the end of the latin alphabet. The 24, actually 27 letters of greek alphabet and the 23, nowadays 26 letters of latin alphabet. Q was used to indicate the pronunciation :ĭisposing already of two -letters: C & Q, Romans decided to un-use the third one, the actual K-letter. Julius Caesar, like all the names or words beginning with C are abbreviated K. Example : Gaius Julius Caesar is always abbreviatedĬ. Remark : Romans preserved too, memory of this historical mistake in abbreviations. However, one also preserved Z, like Y – but Y in greek is latin V ! – shifted at the end of the latin alphabet. One placed the new letter on seventh rank, instead of the greek letter zeta, unused by the Romans. ![]() Later on, already before classical times, a savant – surely a Greek-one – teaching at Rome,įound a very good solution : He put a small mirrored gamma, like a diacritical sign, into the C.īy this, that anonymous savant invented one new letter, the latin letter G. So, by writing CIR CUS, the Romans actually wrote GIR GUS, but they pronounced KIR KUS. Gamma Latinae, indifferenciated for both, and for their kay – except /kw/, see below – and for their well-existing. Therefore in very early, pre-classical times, Romans – instructed first by etruscan teachers – also began to use that The etruscan language didn't know the phoneme, but three different kays. ![]()
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