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Moran, Pádraic, “‘A living speech’? The pronunciation of Greek in early medieval Ireland”, Ériu 61 (2011): 29–57.

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“‘A living speech’? The pronunciation of Greek in early medieval Ireland”
Periodical
Ériu 61 (2011)
Breatnach, Liam, and Damian McManus (eds), Ériu 61 (2011), Royal Irish Academy.
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61
Pages
29–57
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While the Irish knowledge of Greek in the early Middle Ages has been much debated, the evidence of Irish language texts has been largely ignored. Early Irish glossaries (O'Mulconry's Glossary, Sanas Cormaic, Dúil Dromma Cetta) cite at least 190 Greek words, and this presents an opportunity to study some sources for Greek available in Ireland. This article looks at the evidence of the glossaries for the pronunciation of Greek in particular. In doing so, it aims to clarify the extent to which Greek in Ireland was, in Zimmer's words, 'a living speech'.
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Greek language
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Dennis Groenewegen
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February 2012, last updated: May 2019