Evolution of the Greek Phoneme Inventory in the 5th to the 4th Century B.C. and the Variational Linguistics ; on the Book Aussprache und Phonologie im Altgriechischen by Christos Karvounis

Abstract

The paper disputes "Modern Greek" interpretation of the phonetics of Ancient Greek dialects in the 6th to the 4th centuries B.C. promoted recently by Ch. Karvounis.

Consistent consideration of the variational linguistics and prudent use of the sources leads to the conclusion that the change of Ancient Greek sounds to their Modern Greek counterparts was then rather at the beginning.

Keywords

• Ancient Greek
• phonology