Greek Letters (Part 2)

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Greek letters part two.
So we already went over the alphabet.
And now where we're at
is that I am going to go over the breathing marks
as we said before. There are two types of breathing mark, smooth and rough.
The smooth breathing marks are silent
and add nothing to the pronunciation of the word
example.
Adelfo
sisters or
OK,
which is she
rough breathing marks, add a
H sound or ha
sound to the beginning of a syllable or word
example. Hooper,
which means over
rough breathing marks also appear before an initial row
and in this case,
add no sound to the word
Rama
Rama,
for example.
Now
if the breathing mark
falls on the capital letter,
the breeding mark is placed before the capital letter like
Abraham. Oh Abraham,
the example. So the breathing mark is right before
the capital
alpha.
If the breathing mark falls on a dip thong,
the breathing mark is placed above the second
that
so
hots,
which is mas
this one masculine
or
hot,
this one feminine.
There is a video for you
and it's going to be a native Greek speaker
telling you about breathing marks and sometimes even
punctuation
So please check that out when you are able
next consonant clusters,
almost all consonant clusters in Greek are pronounced
as you would in English.
So
if there are so like in English, do you have an S and A T sound
example is like
a Sigma tau?
So
Stros
or Chris
or Glossa
or
Pleroma,
pleroma.
So
all of these words have a double
consonant,
we call these consonant clusters.
So almost all the consonant
clusters are like the same pronounced,
the same like you would in English except for the gamma nasal.
What does that mean? That means that gamma
followed by A G or A K sound
makes a different sound?
Wow.
So gamma has a different sound when it's followed by a G sound or a K sound like gamma
like another gamma A Kappa
A he sound
a A
he or AC.
So let's look at the chart
consonant cluster, gamma, gamma. It's pronounced as
like
singing NG.
An example is the word for Angel or Messenger
Geos.
You can see that the first gamma is an N sound
and it's followed by the other gamma making a G sound.
OK. Angelo,
the next one is gamma, Kappa.
And it's an NK sound.
So we can see
there is a,
a, a commonality
when the gamma is followed by A G or A K sound, it changes to an N sound.
So in this case,
it's like sink
and K.
So the example is
sun
Sun. Sun
Leo is to call together
OK. The third
example or the third consonant cluster,
we have a
gamma
and a he
and that's it. N
see. Sound like the,
the he
so right here Splunk.
Splunk.
Yeah. So bla
needs so my
slang
nso
my
is to have compassion on.
Whoa, you can say that again. Splan
nso
my,
I pity the fool that can't say Splan
nso
my
OK. The last one on the, at
the end in this last consonant cluster that we have
is gamma.
See?
And it makes the
um
sound.
So the F the gamma turns into an N
and then you just
finish it with the C
sound at the end. So the example for is a ravine or a valley
and it's
far
an
it's where we get the word pharynx from
P
and it means a ravine
or a valley
punctuation,
an
illusion.
So
let's look at this chart here, starting from the left hand side,
something that looks like a
comma.
It's usually at the end of the word. So placement is
Theos and then it has. So you have the word
Theos which means God
comma.
Its English look alike
is the cover.
And guess what?
It's used as a comma
when you're looking at Greek?
Well, that's easy. Let's go to the next one. So starting from the left,
you have that dot
Deos,
it looks like a period.
But does it act like a period?
Yes. It does.
It's a period
in both Greek and in English.
Oh man, two for two.
Let's go to the third one.
So you have a dot
And it's at the,
it's on top of the word.
So the placement is
theos
and you have a dot Or a beauty mark like a period above a raised period. So it looks,
it's an English look alike. It's erased, period.
That is a semicolon.
Ok.
It was too good to be true.
But now we know that this is a semicolon
last character we have
a semi
colon A
dot And a comma
and the
theos and we have the.in the comma,
the English look alike is a semicolon,
but actually,
it functions in Greek syntax as a question mark.
Let me have you take a look at that again
and please,
once you stop this video, please look at the,
the presentation that I've made for you and you can at your own leisure.
Look at all of this information.
It's also in your study guide.
Illusion
is a process whereby when a word ending in a vowel, usually a proposition
like
of
or
apple buy
from
is followed by a word beginning with a vowel.
So it in other words,
when you have a proposition and it's followed by
a word beginning with a vowel,
these words like to contract.
So an example would be
mo
the final vowel of the preceding word is dropped
and replaced by an apostrophe. What?
So
there's a collision of two words. You can see this little picture in the middle
apo and emu,
they crash, they collide
and it turns into
a
emu
and it's pronounced like one word.
So the o drops out
and it,
the proposition
connects itself
two,
the word that follows it.
So think of religion
as a coalition or collision
between two words.
So
if you pronounce, you pronounce
up
emu from me
as if it was from one word
accents,
all Greek words except 10
proc.
Some in electrics have accents.
There is an acute
accent and it can be found
on any of the last three syllables
of a word.
The last syllable, the ultimate,
the Penault,
the Penult is the second to the last
or the anti
Penault.
So that the anti
Penult
is the
the syllable right before the second to the last.
So the ultimate is the last syllable.
The Penault
is the second to the last syllable.
And anti
Penult is
one right before the second to the last. So the third to the last, basically.
So an acute accent
which is just kind of like a,
a little tilda
or this little mark, the stroke on the right there,
it could be found on the last three syllables of the word.
So the last one, the second to the last or the third to the last,
then you have a grave
and it can be found
on the final, this one, the grave
can only be found
on the last syllable of the world of the word
ulti,
the ultimate, the last syllable of the word.
Then you have a circumflex
and it's, it's a I this, you can't really see very well,
but it's kind of like an upside down you
or a little half circle circumflex.
It, it can only be found
on a long vowel
in the ultima, the last letter, the last syllable or the second to the last,
the penult position.
Now,
celebrification.
How do you pronounce the syllables in the word?
If there is one vowel
or dip
tongue,
I
mean there is OK. Here is the first rule. Excuse me,
there is rule. Number one,
there is only one vowel
or dip song per syllable.
A Koman.
So that first one, so there's only one vowel or dip song per syllable.
So how do you say the different syllables?
A
kin,
a
kin
uh
and then K
Cool
Men.
So the first vowel is its own syllable
and cake
is the second
Cool
Men.
So the diphthong
calls on its own
and man is the end
a Koman.
Then you have
Mar to
Ra
men,
Matthew Roman.
Again,
this is how you do your syllabification rule.
Number one, there's only one vowel or diphthong per syllable
rule. Number two,
a single consonant by itself,
not a cluster,
goes with the following vowel.
A Rocko
Man.
So a single consonant
by itself just goes with the following vowel. So
again,
or,
or actually
ho
ho oh There you go.
It's
a ruffle,
a rough breathing mark
and then an epsilon and the
an omega
how
he
and then, so that's its own syllable.
Rock
is so the row and the
alpha
are, there are the second syllable and then
K
I
he
ra come in
men. Sorry about that. So Rock common.
So
the consonant goes with the following
vowel. So the, the vowel that follows it.
Another example is an
truss
that one, right? There
has two
consonants. So on is its own
the.