{"id":10,"date":"2009-03-14T22:37:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T03:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/?p=5"},"modified":"2009-03-14T22:37:18","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T03:37:18","slug":"more-pronunciation-rules-vowelsyllable-length","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/more-pronunciation-rules-vowelsyllable-length\/","title":{"rendered":"More Pronunciation Rules: Vowel\/Syllable Length"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A vowel is short before another vowel or h. An example of this is in the word <strong>po &#8211; \u0113 &#8211; ma<\/strong>, which means poem in Latin.\u00a0 Another example of this is in the word <strong>ni &#8211; hil<\/strong>, which means nothing in Latin.<\/p>\n<p>A vowel is pronounced with a short sound before nt and nd. You can see this in the word <strong>a &#8211; mant<\/strong>.\u00a0 In Latin this = they love. It&#8217;s also true for words like <strong>mo &#8211; nen &#8211; dus<\/strong>. In Latin this word = to be advised.<\/p>\n<p>A vowel is also short before a word ending in a final l or r. The words <strong>a &#8211; ni &#8211; mal<\/strong> (animal) and <strong>a &#8211; mor<\/strong> (love) have this trait.<\/p>\n<p>A vowel is pronounced long before nf, ns, j and gn. Here are some examples: <strong>c\u014dn &#8211; fe -r\u014d<\/strong> (bring together), <strong>m\u0113n &#8211; sa<\/strong> (table), <strong>h\u016b &#8211; jus<\/strong> (of him), and <strong>m\u0101 &#8211; gnus<\/strong> (great).<\/p>\n<p>A syllable is long when it contains a long vowel or a dipthong: <strong>v\u014d &#8211; c\u0113s<\/strong> (voices), <strong>ae- d\u0113s<\/strong> (temple).<\/p>\n<p>A syllable is long when a syllable ends in a consonant followed by another consonant like <strong>cor &#8211; pus<\/strong> (body, corpse).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vowel is short before another vowel or h. An example of this is in the word po &#8211; \u0113 &#8211; ma, which means poem in Latin.\u00a0 Another example of this is in the word ni &#8211; hil, which means nothing in Latin. A vowel is pronounced with a short sound before nt and nd&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/more-pronunciation-rules-vowelsyllable-length\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3691],"tags":[3748],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-latin-language","tag-latin-pronunciation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}