{"id":625,"date":"2019-05-05T03:55:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T03:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/?p=625"},"modified":"2019-05-05T04:44:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T04:44:54","slug":"explanation-of-prononciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/2019\/05\/05\/explanation-of-prononciation\/","title":{"rendered":"Explanation of prononciation."},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-625-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/526\/2019\/05\/Record-online-voice-recorder.com_.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/526\/2019\/05\/Record-online-voice-recorder.com_.mp3\">https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/526\/2019\/05\/Record-online-voice-recorder.com_.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>The Old Spanish pronunciation of \u2018v\u2019 is exactly like the prononciation of\u00a0 the \/b\/ in Modern Spanish. This sound change from Latin stayed consistent through old to modern Spanish.\u00a0 However, there is a difference between \/b\/ (word initial, or after nasal consonant).<\/p>\n<p>In Old Spanish the letter \u2018\u00e7\u2019 and \u2018c+i, e\u2019 are pronounced\u00a0 \/ts\/ but later evolved to \u2018c\u2019 which is the phonemes of the seseantes varieties.<\/p>\n<p>The Old Spanish pronunciation of \u2018x\u2019 is \/sh\/. But over time, due to a consonant shift where sibilant consonants became non-sibilant fricative sounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Old Spanish pronunciation of \u2018v\u2019 is exactly like the prononciation of\u00a0 the \/b\/ in Modern Spanish. This sound change from Latin stayed consistent through old to modern Spanish.\u00a0 However, there is a difference between \/b\/ (word initial, or after nasal consonant). In Old Spanish the letter \u2018\u00e7\u2019 and \u2018c+i, e\u2019 are pronounced\u00a0 \/ts\/ but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/2019\/05\/05\/explanation-of-prononciation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explanation of prononciation.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bianca","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}