[ANSTHRLD] Frankish pronunciation

[John Atkinson]

Not yet.  Client just started looking at the articles today.  Or
yesterday -- time zones have me all jacked up in this regard.  But she
was asking, and I haven't a clue where to begin.

Ioannes
who's comfy with English, Bad English, and Greek.  That's it.

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Richard Culver <rbculver at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Do you have the name for us to look at?  The pronounciation is going to be greatly determined by whether it is in fact French, Frankish, or might even wind up being just a Latinized Danish.  French is what we think of  as Parisian, Frankish at that time was still spoken in low part of still Germanic tongued lands- sometimes differentiated as Franconian these days, and then the Normand dialect itself which is what happen when Danes try to speak French.
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> Wihtric
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> Subject: [ANSTHRLD] Frankish pronunciation
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> So client wants female name from early 10 century, and persona is from
> what will shortly be formalized as the Duchy of Normandy.  There's a
> persona story with Vikings in it, but the important thing is this:
>
> I pointed her at some late Frankish and early French articles at
> Academy of St. Gabriel and she asked if there was some good
> information about how things were properly pronounced, rather than
> just spelled.
>
> So I ask for help here -- anyone qualified to pronounce upon the
> subject, and willing for me to convey contact information so that the
> client can speak directly to him or her?
>
> Ioannes Dalassenos
> --
> "Thousands of Sarmatians, Thousands of Franks, we've slain them again
> and again.  We're looking for thousands of Persians."
> --Vita Aureliani
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-- 
"Thousands of Sarmatians, Thousands of Franks, we've slain them again
and again.  We're looking for thousands of Persians."
--Vita Aureliani