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No one will ever know what Attic Greek's accents sounded like. Tom Send a noteboard - 17/09/2012 07:12:30 PM
However, from what we can tell it's probably a pitch accent system, which is different from a tonal language in that only a few syllables in any sentence will have any pitch, as opposed to Chinese, where every syllable has a tone.
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ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

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No one will ever know what Attic Greek's accents sounded like. Tom - 17/09/2012 07:12:30 PM 342 Views
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