r/linguisticshumor • u/NebularCarina I hāpī nei au i te vānaŋa Rapa Nui (ko au he repa Hiva). • Feb 17 '25

Phonetics/Phonology Pronunciation of <c>

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u/PixelDragon04 Feb 18 '25

Diacritics were written later, in ancient inscriptions there are none. It should be CĀIUS though I think, with a macron (or at least that's what is used now)

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u/Chrome_X_of_Hyrule Vedic is NOT Proto Indo-Aryan ‼️ Feb 18 '25

Now a macron is used but I believe in the past they used a thing called an apex

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apex_(diacritic)

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u/PixelDragon04 Feb 25 '25

Wow I had no idea they actually used diacritics in old inscriptions, especially for vowel length

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u/Chrome_X_of_Hyrule Vedic is NOT Proto Indo-Aryan ‼️ Feb 25 '25

I was surprised when someone told me about it like a couple months ago on Reddit too, so you're not the only one who didn't know about this

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u/PixelDragon04 Feb 25 '25

I mean I live in Italy and study in Rome, but I never noticed any apex in the epigraphes I saw. Probably I had them mistaken with errors in carving or incisions due to their age