Gegaderung
Gegaderung => Old English Language => Topic started by: David on August 16, 2016, 03:24:28 PM
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Listen to the suggested changes in the pronunciation of some of our numbers going back in time, in most cases as far back as Proto Indo European. The transformations are made using mathematical and statistical analysis of the spectrograms of the sounds by a team at the University of Oxford.
http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/jcoleman/ancient-sounds-audio.html (http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/jcoleman/ancient-sounds-audio.html)
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Below I give my suggestions on the numbers although they do not seem to agree exactly with what I’m hearing on the links
Modern Middle Old Western Proto Proto
English English English Germanic Germanic Indo European
1 one oon ān ain ainaz óynos
2 two twei twā twai twō dwo
3 three tre þrīe þrīz þrīz tréyes
4 four fower fēower feuwar fedwōr kwetwóres
5 five fif fīf fimf fimf pénkwe
8 eight eahte eahta ahtōu ahtōu oktōw
9 nine nyne nigon niwum newum h1newn
10 ten tene tīen tehun tehun dekmd