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| | The Greek Alphabet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | Now, to the modern Greek ear, [v] is a soft sound (a “fricative” in linguistics), sort of smooth and gentle, while [b] is a hard one (a “plosive”), kind of rough and crass. |
 | | palatalization, [ghe] sounds a bit like “ye” in “yes”, and [ghi] sounds a bit like “yi” in “yield”. |
 | | Such sounds are all the postalveolar fricatives and postalveolar affricates ([sh] as in “shop”, [Z] as in “pleasure”, [ch] as in “church”, and [dZ] as in “job”). |
| www.cogsci.indiana.edu /farg/harry/lan/grkphon.htm (3985 words) |
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