Wait do Italians actually use v for u?
Wait do Italians actually use v for u?
James Myers
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Asher Hernandez
no that's a stylistic holdover from the Romans, who used v for u
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Alexander Gutierrez
Italian BVLLS
Austin Sanders
how did Romans differentiated v from u then?
Logan Morales
they didn't, the concept of a u or the english alphabet didn't exist yet
this comes later when england decided to stop being a part of the roman empire
Luke Hall
Yeah, Latin had no voiced labiodental fricative (english v) so there was no problem
they used u as basically u and w
Angel Hall
so they sometimes pronounced it as v and other times a u?
Jackson Foster
no, the concept of "u" didn't exist which is why latin is different from italian
Henry Thompson
There was no letter "u"
Letter "u" appeared later, derived from "v", just like "w"
Connor Myers
but they did pronounce the letter you?
how would you pronounce venus in classical Latin?