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Nasal vowels in latin

I know word final m and n can nasalise the preceding vowel in classical latin, but what is the high prestige way to pronounce word final m and n? Like, the letter y pronounced by most romans in greek loan words was /i/ or /u/, but if you were extra schloarly, you pronounced as /y/; I'm wondering if there was anything similar going on here, would knowledgeable people pronounce word final m and n, or was nasalising the vowel preceding the consonant more fashionable?

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u/TheeImmortalPaladin — 3 days ago
▲ 2 r/latin

Mediaeval latin pronunciation

I'm curious for in depth pronunciations of medieval latin:

English pronunciation of latin 1200 - 1600
Carolingian pronunciation of latin in the 800s
What people would have prescribed as classical latin pronunciation (from any time after the fall of the roman empire)
Old french pronunciation of latin
Old italian pronunciation of latin
Old occitan pronunciation of latin

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u/TheeImmortalPaladin — 3 days ago

Titles of dishonour?

I'm familiar with the title 'the Unready', such as with Æþelræd the Unready, but I'm looking for more such titles, but there doesn't seem to show very much information with just an online search.

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u/TheeImmortalPaladin — 6 days ago
▲ 9 r/runes

Transitional period between elder and younger futhark

I'm curious if we know of transitional periods between the two futharks, or whether it was a sudden instant change between them, and if the former, some examples would be helpful.
Also, some insight on what might've caused the development and change of the runes.

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u/TheeImmortalPaladin — 9 days ago
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Secret of Kells, Aisling's Language

Aisling has a native language and uses it twice in the movie; once when talking about bugs, presumably it's name, and also used when she is turning pangur bán into some sort of spirit. I'm curious on the details of the language, whether they used an existing language or if they created some sort of fairy language for Aisling.

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u/TheeImmortalPaladin — 23 days ago
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Why did elder futhark get replaced by the inferior futhark?

It's quite clear younger futhark is not properly suited to write old norse, it's missing many sounds so that one rune can represent two different sounds and it's impossible to tell which one, like ᚦ can make both /þ/ and /ð/, and ᛏ m can make /t/ and /d/; my confusion arises because the elder futhark was able to represent all these sounds without ambiguity; each rune representing one sound. It just doesn't make any sense to me that it got worse over time and that they lost necessary letters to represent their language

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u/TheeImmortalPaladin — 29 days ago

Early Western European Warfare Books?

I’m looking for books that were written from the creation of Rome until the end of the medieval era— no later— and were translated into modern English. I’m most interested about learning Roman and Germanic warfare, but everything else would be good too.
Also, specifying note: I am not looking for books written about their ware fare from a modern point of view, I want to read what they wrote about warfare.

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u/TheeImmortalPaladin — 1 month ago

Early Western European war fare books?

I’m looking for books that were written from the creation of Rome until the end of the medieval era— no later— and were translated into modern English. I’m most interested about learning Roman and Germanic warfare, but everything else would be good too.
Also, specifying note: I am not looking for books written about their ware fare from a modern point of view, I want to read what they wrote about warfare.

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u/TheeImmortalPaladin — 1 month ago
▲ 2 r/German

Book that uses the IPA?

I'm looking for a textbook and a wordbook that uses the IPA, not any funny english phonetic symbols, preferably in English, though

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u/TheeImmortalPaladin — 1 month ago
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I am leaving this subreddit

This is because it's boring to my eyes, and I think a large amount of it's posts are not interesting, and thus should be on r/notinteresting

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u/TheeImmortalPaladin — 2 months ago