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
Also nice flag-- Caucasian Georgia= best Georgia
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?
Michael Morris
There is no letter "you", "you" is an English word for 2nd person singular and plural which has nothing to do with much, MUCH older Latin alphabet that dates to antiquity.
You would pronounce "venus" with a /v/ sound and "dvx" with a /u/ sound.
Brody Reyes
>decided to stop being part of the roman empire
the romans withdrew troops and they got conquered lol, there was no "decision" involved
Ryder Brown
I thought they didn't have the /v/ sound in latin at all
Kevin Cook
Here's the autism explanation of classical Latin pronunciation:
youtube.com
Gabriel Miller
I get that they didn't have the written letter, I'm talking about pronunciation, they did have it in pronunciation.
Aaron Jones
It's a bit hard to believe a language that isn't fully Polynesian tier retarded doesn't have a /v/, especially an indo-European one, but it's possible.
Maybe in very low antiquity they didn't have the sound? Fuck, we could use an expert in Latin.
Julian Barnes
This sort of thing is highly controversial, but the /v/ sound didn't exist in Greek either, just an /f/ sound. Latin definitely had an /f/ as in
>frater, fraternitas
but I think that /v/ was a later introduction
Austin Phillips
>Caucasian Georgia= best Georgia
t. Alabama
Leo Lopez
Pennsylvania, but nice try
Andrew Reyes
almost got me
Eli Walker
you fucking nigger
ill answer georgianon
they pronounces it /'winus/