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After the defeat against the Persians almost the entire Greek people fled towards Roman territory: Rome triplicated its population and was greekized. During their living together Greeks and Romans used mainly the '''Greek language''' to communicate, whereas the ''Latin language'' became a secondary and socially lower language, spoken mainly by common people. Nevertheless - almost incomprehensibly - the Greeks adopted the '''Latin alphabet''', maybe trying to be understood even by the lower social classes. | After the defeat against the Persians almost the entire Greek people fled towards Roman territory: Rome triplicated its population and was greekized. During their living together Greeks and Romans used mainly the '''Greek language''' to communicate, whereas the ''Latin language'' became a secondary and socially lower language, spoken mainly by common people. Nevertheless - almost incomprehensibly - the Greeks adopted the '''Latin alphabet''', maybe trying to be understood even by the lower social classes. | ||
As we are talking about the modern language, we don't consider the first versions of the alphabet that were used in ancient times. The alphabet of Brythohellenic contains | As we are talking about the modern language, we don't consider the first versions of the alphabet that were used in ancient times. The alphabet of Brythohellenic contains 23 letters: | ||
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|[g] / [ʝ] / [h] ([x]) / [ ] | |[g] / [ʝ] / [h] ([x]) / [ ] | ||
|in front of '''a''', '''o''', '''u''' it is always pronunced as in the English word ''get''; in front of '''e''', '''i''', '''y''' it sounds like ''y'' in the English ''yet'', but the tongue is positioned more frontward; when it precedes another consonant that is not '''w''', it is pronounced like ''h'' in the English ''hot'', even if some speakers tend to pronounce it as ''ch'' of the German ''ach'', and others don't pronounce it at all; in the endings '''-eg''' and '''-ig''' it is not pronounced | |in front of '''a''', '''o''', '''u''' it is always pronunced as in the English word ''get''; in front of '''e''', '''i''', '''y''' it sounds like ''y'' in the English ''yet'', but the tongue is positioned more frontward; when it precedes another consonant that is not '''w''', it is pronounced like ''h'' in the English ''hot'', even if some speakers tend to pronounce it as ''ch'' of the German ''ach'', and others don't pronounce it at all; in the endings '''-eg''' and '''-ig''' it is not pronounced | ||
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