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On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Risto Kupsala wrote: > Dana Nutter wrote: >> This isn't quite right according to my sources. > > Indeed. When I was checking my sources, it warned that Latin pronunciation > is taught differently in different countries and even in different > universities in some countries. > [trim] I might suggest a book (written in English): W. Sidney Allen VOX LATINA: The Pronunciation of Classical Latin Cambridge University Press second edition, 1978 (reprinted various times) ISBN 0-521-22049-1 (hardback); 0-521-37936-9 (paperback) Allen argues that we can reconstruct the pronunciation of Latin in the Classical period with considerable accuracy, despite the later dialectalization of later pronunciations. -- Paul Bartlett