Ecclesiastical Pronunciation of vowels (especially e and o)
Salvete! I have experience with the Classical Latin pronunciation since I've been using it for nearly two years of learning Latin. Recently, I got interested in reading the Bible in Latin, and for that I'd like to use the Ecclesiastical Pronunciation.
I pretty much nailed all the consonant sounds. However, I've been quite confused about the vowels, leaving me frustrated. I've been looking at the Wiktionary entries since I really like IPA notation and because other websites/books/videos didn't really help me. But the IPA notation still confused me.
Sometimes the letter e is pronounced as [ε] and other times as [e]. When is which pronunciation used?
Here a few examples from Wiktionary:
pervenio [perˈvɛː.ni.o]
roseus [ˈrɔː.s̬e.us]
meus [ˈmɛː.us]
mille [ˈmil.le]And I have similar problems with [ɔ] and [o]. When is it which one?
(For i and u I gathered that only [i] and [u] exist and y is [i].)
- And overall for all vowels I noticed in every word I saw that long vowels only appear in stressed syllables. Is this correct? If that's the case, is the use of macrons like it can be done in Classical Latin not recommended in Ecclesiastical Latin because only the stressed syllable is long anyway and all other vowels are short?
I'm sorry for the long text, I just really want to pronounce it properly.