[tied] Re: Yers

From: fortuna11111
Message: 22994
Date: 2003-06-10

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Jens Elmegaard Rasmussen
<jer@...> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, fortuna11111 wrote:
>
> > [...] The stress is written explicitly on the first syllable in the
> > oldest Bulgarian Inscriptions in Greek, so obviously they
> > reflected the orginal pronunciation of the word by Bulgarians
> > themselves.
> [...]
> >
> > How will you explain this?
>
> How indeed? Is it really true that Greek *inscriptions* noted the
accent
> in this case? That is not customary of inscriptional Greek
which simply
> leaves the accents and the h'es unwritten.
>
> Jens

Jens, these were "inscriptions" or say writings of Bulgarians
themselves about themselves using the Greek alphabet. I have
seen pictures of this and I can scan them for you. There are
stresses over all words there. I have no idea what you are trying
to imply. Tell me if you want the scan.

Eva