Does anyone know how to pronounce Latin?

[Perun]

Here's the full breakdown, folks. Pronunciation of Latin letters in the Classical and Ecclesiastical/Medieval/Late dialects. Off the top of my head:

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Now you got me interested. I always accepted that there were two "official" Latin pronunciations, and that he one the church used was the odd one, justified only by the fact that Latin is rarely used (even within the Catholic church), and is heavily influenced by Italian. My friend's mother is a professor of classical philology (and the said friend is an archaeologist herself), and I'll have to ask them about this.

As a side question, those of you that actually studied Latin, which pronunciation did oyu use? (I had Latin for 8 years, and we used traditional pronunciation exclusively.)

 

[johnsemlak]

Certianly when I studied we stuck to classical pronunciation, but pronunciation wasn't stressed much anyway.

 

[Jack Daniel]

Now you got me interested. I always accepted that there were two "official" Latin pronunciations, and that he one the church used was the odd one, justified only by the fact that Latin is rarely used (even within the Catholic church), and is heavily influenced by Italian. My friend's mother is a professor of classical philology (and the said friend is an archaeologist herself), and I'll have to ask them about this.

As a side question, those of you that actually studied Latin, which pronunciation did oyu use? (I had Latin for 8 years, and we used traditional pronunciation exclusively.)

I always use the Ecclesiastical pronunciation, because I'm Catholic, I like Medieval studies, and frankly, it sounds cooler. And studying Latin at a university, my professors always use the Classical. You can always tell who's a stickler for the Classical version (even though the Classical pronunciation is the one that's artificial and reconstructed) because Latin teachers hate it when their students speak "Church Latin" for the sole reason that it's not "Classical." I always got along with the profs who didn't care and just let us pronounce the dead language however we wanted, but the hardcore Classicists... well, it's certainly fun to push their buttions by intentionally pronouncing all the "v's" like "v's"!

 

[Desdichado]

wow. i want to read that book =)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...104-2466876-3161541?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

It is really good...