Vowels

Question 1

What are the two types of vowels in Latin?

Answer 1

Long and short

Question 2

What is the distinction between long and short vowels?

Answer 2

• Long vowels are held longer that short vowels
• Long vowels are marked with a macron ā
• Unmarked vowels are short

Question 3

What are the 6 Latin vowels?

Answer 3

a
e
I
o
I
y(only appears in words of Greek origin)

Question 4

What is the name for a combination of two vowel sounds that are collapsed together into a single vowel or syllable?

Answer 4

•Diphthongs

Question 5

List the diphthongs

Answer 5

• ae
• oe
• au
• eu

Question 6

How do you pronounce ae?

Answer 6

e

Question 7

How do you pronounce oe?

Answer 7

e

Question 8

How do you pronounce au?

Answer 8

• au in Latin words

* ev in Greek words

Question 9

How do you pronounce eu?

Answer 9

• eu in Latin words

* ev in Greek words

Question 10

How do you pronounce the second vowel when it is marked with a trema?

Answer 10

•Vowel is pronounces separately

Question 11

Describe long vowels by nature

Answer 11

• When the syllable contains a long vowel or a diphthong

* Eg- medicīna, diaeta

Question 12

Describe long vowels by position

Answer 12

• When vowel is followed by two or more consonants ( instrumēntum, placēnta)
• When the vowel is followed by the complex consonants (X= [Ks] [gz] and z= [z] -reflexus