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15th Mar '13 5:29:18 PM Takhitty

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Pope is Emeritus now. :) I don't know how the new one would pronounce it. :/

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10th Mar '13 11:19:58 AM JIKTV

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15th Jan '13 3:33:09 AM memememememe

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Note, however, that in the Christian religious context, there is an similar different pronunciation guide for it, based largely on the standard modern pronunciation in Rome. This is known as '''Ecclesiastical Latin''' or Church Latin, and is the pronunciation you'll typically hear in OminousLatinChanting (e.g. Mozart's ''Requiem'' or Beethoven's ''Missa Solemnis''). Even there, though, regional variations exist; a recording of, say, the current (German) Pope will sound somewhat different than that of one of the modern Italian popes. The pronunication guide below details only '''Classical''' Latin, not the Ecclesiastical variant.

It has become the convention in modern printing of Latin works to print "v" where a consonant is indicated, and "u" where is a vowel. Classical orthography made no such distinction, but used "V" in both cases -- thus "VIDEO, AVDIO" (all in caps, by the way, small letters being a mediaeval or perhaps very late-Imperial invention). Inconsistently, modern printing prefers "i" for both consonant and vowel, where older printings substituted a "j" for the former -- thus where Augustus would have written "IVVAVIT", [[GoodbyeMrChips Mr. Chipping]] would have written "juvavit", and a modern Latinist "iuvavit". It all gets very confusing.

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Note, however, that in the Christian religious context, there is an similar different pronunciation guide for it, based largely on the standard modern pronunciation in Rome. This is known as '''Ecclesiastical Latin''' or Church Latin, and is the pronunciation you'll typically hear in OminousLatinChanting (e.g. Mozart's ''Requiem'' or Beethoven's ''Missa Solemnis''). Even there, though, regional variations exist; a recording of, say, the current (German) Pope will sound somewhat different than that of one of the modern Italian popes. The pronunciation guide below details only '''Classical''' Latin, not the more familiar Ecclesiastical variant.

First off, the biggest difference between Classical Latin and English[=/=]Ecclesiastical Latin, '''the letter "V" in Latin is pronounced like the letter "U" or "W" in English.''' The ancient Romans didn't have separate letters for U and V, and didn't pronounce the letter V, despite what Ecclesiastical Ominous Latin Chanting that do pronounce V would have made you believe.

It has become the convention in modern printing of Latin works to print "v" where a consonant is indicated, and "u" where is a vowel. Classical orthography and pronunciation made no such distinction, but used "V" in both cases -- thus "VIDEO, AVDIO" (all in caps, by the way, small letters being a mediaeval or perhaps very late-Imperial invention). Julius Caesar's famous PretentiousLatinMotto "Veni Vidi Vici" would have been pronounced originally as "Weni Widi Wiki", and his name would have been like IVLIVS CAESAR (pronounced like "Kaisar", hence the basis for the German Emperor's title of Kaiser).

Inconsistently, modern printing prefers "i" for both consonant and vowel, where older printings substituted a "j" for the former -- thus where Augustus would have written "IVVAVIT", [[GoodbyeMrChips Mr. Chipping]] would have written "juvavit", and a modern Latinist "iuvavit". It all gets very confusing.

8th May '12 6:23:56 PM LordGro

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2nd Feb '12 6:41:18 PM Specialist290

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13th Jan '12 3:16:04 AM aurora369

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19th Dec '11 9:51:57 PM Nocturna

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If You Know What I Mean cleanup

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19th Dec '11 9:46:02 PM memememememe

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19th Dec '11 9:40:43 PM memememememe

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It should be noted that until very recently, Latin has commonly been pronounced ''according to the phonetic rules of the native language of the speaker.'' Thus a name like "Cicero", pronounced "Keekayro" by the man himself, would have been pronounced "Sissuhro" by an Englishman or American, "Seesayro" by a Frenchman, "Tseetsayro" by a German, "Cheechayro" by an Italian, "Theethayro" by a Spaniard, and so on. "''Classical'' Latin" was a formal, somewhat artificial language - the common people definitely didn't speak it, it already had its regional dialects, and thus was confined to the educated elite. Its pronunciation is a reconstruction, based on philological principles, of how scholars think the language was probably pronounced in the age of Augustus (around the 1st century BC/AD).

Note, however, that in the Christian religious context, there is an similar different pronunciation guide for it, based largely on the standard modern pronunciation in Rome. This is known as '''Ecclesiastical Latin''' or Church Latin, and is the pronunciation you'll typically hear in musical settings of the mass (e.g. Mozart's ''Requiem'' or Beethoven's ''Missa Solemnis''). Even there, though, regional variations exist; a recording of, say, the current (German) Pope will sound somewhat different than that of one of the modern Italian popes. The pronunication guide below details only '''Classical''' Latin, not the Ecclesiastical variant.

* First off, the biggest difference between Classical Latin and English, '''the letter "V" in Latin is pronounced like the letter "W" in English.''' The ancient Romans didn't have separate letters for U and V.

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It should be noted that until very recently, Latin has commonly been pronounced ''according to the phonetic rules of the native language of the speaker.'' Thus a name like "Cicero", pronounced "Keekayro" by the man himself, would have been pronounced "Sissuhro" by an Englishman or American, "Seesayro" by a Frenchman, "Tseetsayro" by a German, "Cheechayro" by an Italian, "Theethayro" by a Spaniard, and so on. "''Classical'' Latin" was a formal, somewhat artificial language - the common people definitely didn't speak it (Greek was the ''lingua franca'' of Ancient Rome), it already had its regional dialects, and thus was confined to the educated elite. Its pronunciation is a reconstruction, based on philological principles, of how scholars think the language was probably pronounced in the age of Augustus (around the 1st century BC/AD).

Note, however, that in the Christian religious context, there is an similar different pronunciation guide for it, based largely on the standard modern pronunciation in Rome. This is known as '''Ecclesiastical Latin''' or Church Latin, and is the pronunciation you'll typically hear in musical settings of the mass and most kinds of OminousLatinchanting (e.g. Mozart's ''Requiem'' or Beethoven's ''Missa Solemnis''). Even there, though, regional variations exist; a recording of, say, the current (German) Pope will sound somewhat different than that of one of the modern Italian popes. The pronunication guide below details only '''Classical''' Latin, not the Ecclesiastical variant.

First off, the biggest difference between Classical Latin and English, '''the letter "V" in Latin is pronounced like the letter "U" or "W" in English.''' The ancient Romans didn't have separate letters for U and V.

31st Aug '11 5:51:01 PM Goldenpelt

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