That the spirant J was in all cases pronounced as Y there is scarcely room for doubt.
They possessed the spirant F which they expressed by [Symbol] and used the symbol [Symbol] to denote V or W.
In Late Latin there was a tendency to this spirant pronunciation which appears as early as the beginning of the 2nd century A.
When the lips are not tightly closed the sound produced is not a stop, but a spirant like the English w.
Umbrian took over from Etruscan perhaps the sign ., but gave it the new value of a spirant whirh developed out of an earlier d-sound, but which is written in the Latin alphabet with rs.
Thus F came to be the representative of the unvoiced labiodental spirant instead of that for the bilabial voiced spirant.
The χ was attracted into a palatal spirant by the following dental, and the dental itself was then palatalized.
The sign =j= in Gothic pronunciation probably has the value of a consonantal =i=, not that of the spirant j in German.
For the pronunciation of medial =g= as a spirant the Latin representations may be adduced (cp.
The medial guttural spirantmore commonly develops to w in the fourteenth century: awe (ON.
The closure of b is occasionally imperfect, so that a bilabial spirant is produced: túVig for túbig water; this variation has been ignored in transcription.
The guttural spirant is g in swolgen 72, sorge 74 (comp.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spirant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
