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old talk
editit would make more sense to present the letters without serifs. dab (ᛏ) 17:16, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
- Not sure why it wold make more sense. Surely Roman inscriptions at the Claudian period normally had serifs? --rossb 20:00, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
I just removed this:
- His first innovation, however, would not catch on for about 600 years, when W was derived from a ligature of two Vs.
I can't find anything at W to suggest that it had anything to do with the Claudian letters, or see any apparent connection... Am I missing something that is not clear? ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 22:39, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
- I think the 'innovation' was meant to be 'the use of a separate letter for consonantal V than vocalic V', not the use of any particular letter shape to do so. —Muke Tever talk 22:55, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
- none of his innovations 'caught on'; no letter for /ps/ or /ɪ/ [except for Eihwaz?] were ever introduced, and Ƿ, w < uu was an independent Germanic idea. dab (ᛏ) 12:31, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
- Not [ɪ], [y] or [ʏ] in Classical Greek. David Marjanović 21:47, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
Daily gazette
editWhat is this Roman daily gazette mentioned by Suetonius? Do we have an article on it? --84.20.17.84 12:33, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
- Probably inventor of "Roman daily gazette" was google translator :-) There wasn't such thing, Suetonius wrote about [state] registers... I fixed it. 95.51.201.218 (talk) 15:33, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
Half H
editThe text by Suetonius cited as reference clearly state that the half H was created to repredent the so-called sonus medius and not the Greek upsilon which had been transcribed with Y since the I century BC.--Carnby (talk) 21:31, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
- No, the text by Suetonius says "three new letters", and refers to Claudii lost (?) "instruction manual" for them, without further specifying their form or usage. ... said: Rursus (bork²) 10:32, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
- I believe you're out for Quintilian who has an extensive treaty on letters and pronunciations, including descriptions on the Claudian letters. ... said: Rursus (bork²) 10:35, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
Sonus medius
editDoes this represent a schwa sound perhaps? Or is it unknown? Ben Finn (talk) 14:50, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
- It is generally assumed that it referred to a vowel like [y] or [ʏ], since it must have been (judging from the vacillating spelling) a sound in between [i] and [u]. However, it would presumably continue an earlier schwa vowel which became an [y]-like vowel (as opposed to the default outcome [i]) in the vicinity of a labial consonant, hence: Early Latin *optemos > *optəmos > Old Latin optymus.
- Apparently, any full vowel /a e i o u/ in an Early Latin non-initial open syllable became neutralised to a schwa by ca. 500 BC, and later this schwa was either dropped entirely or was phonemicised as /i/ (the default outcome), /e/ (preceding /r/, and apparently word-finally), /y/ (before labial consonants), or /u/ (before /l/), and the marginal vowel [y] (perhaps really only an allophone of /i/?) was later (in the classical period) re-phonemicised as either /i/ or /u/, restoring the original system of five short vowels. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 23:38, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
January 2013
edit- «Ⱶ, a half H to represent the so-called sonus medius, a short vowel sound between U and I before labial consonants in Latin words such as optumus/optimus»
optumus/optimus? Come on. You know better examples than ones with U and I in reverse order. -- 03:09, 6 January 2013 88.90.229.203
"Dokfmentun" listed at Redirects for discussion
editAn editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Dokfmentun. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. signed, Rosguill talk 19:17, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
Antisigma
editWhat shape did it have? -- 13:26, 14 August 2021 83.142.57.33
- As implemented in Unicode, a reversed "c" (i.e. opposite to a lunate sigma). As originally intended by the Emperor Claudius, no one knows for sure... AnonMoos (talk) 22:16, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
I think it's more of a Ƨ shape --83.142.57.33 (talk) 17:48, 20 October 2021 (UTC)