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I don't know where this idea that the "ci" group is pronounced "ki" came from (or "cae" / "ce" is pronounced "ke"). Given that both Italian and Romanian preserv
by mdpopescu 6y ago
I don't know where this idea that the "ci" group is pronounced "ki" came from (or "cae" / "ce" is pronounced "ke"). Given that both Italian and Romanian preserved them as "tchi" / "tche" (so Caesar is "Tche-zar", not "Ke-zar" as I read somewhere), I have some strong doubts about it.
- ThomasWinwood 6y agoMuch like the majority of the Latin-speaking world, Italian underwent a sound change where [k] softened before a front vowel. The original [k] can be found in Sardinian and the now-extinct African Romance.
- pofjer 6y agoRomanian adopted the Latin alphabet in the 19th century and the spelling was intentionally based on Italian. So it's not a good representative for this particular argument — of course it spells it this way, because it was intentionally chosen to spell it this way by importing Italian spelling rules for these sounds.