Completely updated on a new and improved platform, Familia Romana Essentials Online offers students and instructors as well as self-learners an integrated and fully-digital Latin learning experience drawn from the essential components of Pars I of Hans rberg’s Lingua Latina per se Illustrata series. Each file consists of an audio recording pertaining to a chapter in Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata: Pars 1: Familia Romana. Classical Pronunciation: The Familia Romana Latine audio album, classical pronunciation, consists of thirty-one MP3 files, available for download.
39.95 for a 12-month student subscription. The ecclesiastical pronunciation album is available for purchase (MP3 download) at:, iTunes, and CD Baby. For an extremely brief and simplified summary of vowels in Reconstructed Classical pronunciation, ī i ē e ā a o ō u ū y ȳ were something like /iː ɪ eː ɛ aː a ɔ oː ʊ uː ʏ yː/. INDIVIDUAL LEARNERS: See purchasing options and FAQs about the self-paced learner version of the course here. If you're using one of those, you can safely ignore the long marks when reading. Purchase Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata: Familia Romana at at this link : camp1. So (except for a few exceptions involving e and o) those pronunciations don't care about vowel lengths. They're less concerned with how the ancient Romans spoke and more concerned with how people have been speaking in more recent years. So vowel length has had a resurgence of popularity.īut the Ecclesiastical pronunciation, and most of the regional pronunciations like Traditional English, were codified long before that. To the Romans, it was an important distinction, and it separated various near-homophones (like alium "another", ālium "garlic", or anus "ring", ānus "old woman"). Later, linguists and classicists looked back at the evidence, and came to the conclusion that vowel length was important and deserved to be studied. For the most part, a and ā were pronounced exactly the same, and the difference was only marked in writing when absolutely necessary (like to separate Rōma from Rōmā the latter was often written " Româ", with a circumflex). So when mediaeval writers went back and tried to imitate the Classical style, they didn't really bother with the vowel lengths (since they weren't a familiar part of everyday speech). In the Romance languages, the length difference eventually disappeared entirely, and the set of twelve monophthongs was reduced to seven. In Classical times, the long vowels ( ā ē ī ō ū ȳ) were literally pronounced for longer than the short ones ( a e i o u y) there was probably also a difference in sound (though whether this was acceptable in high-class oratory or considered a Vulgar trait it unknown). However, the vowel length markings are generally associated with Reconstructed Classical pronunciation.
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Strictly speaking, LLPSI doesn't require any particular pronunciation style: you're free to read the text in Reconstructed Classical, Ecclesiastical, Traditional English, or whichever you prefer! Ecclesiastical Pronunciation Capitulum 25 Hans H.