Phonology in Claudius’s Letters
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https://doi.org/10.24197/mrfc.37.2024.29-43Keywords:
Latin alphabet, Claudius, phonology, digamma inuersum, letter Ⱶ, antisigmaAbstract
Almost a century after the establishment of the Linguistic Circle of Prague in 1926, this paper intends to analyse the letters that Emperor Claudius introduced into the Latin alphabet, because he considered them quasi maxime necessariae. Using certain still valid phonological postulates of that school, our analysis will try to show that, for different reasons, the need for these letters was diverse: one of them seems to have been superfluous; another, pertinent, and the other, phonologically understandable.
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