Old English Pronunciation: A Comprehensive Reconstruction
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Hand-picked by a BrighterTube curator · found via HackerTube (Karpathy's dataset of videos Hacker News recommends · 86% confidenceSimon Roper is a historical-linguistics enthusiast whose reconstructions are carefully researched and widely praised by linguists; an extraordinarily thorough 2.5-hour treatment of historical phonology.
What you'll learn
A comprehensive reconstruction of Old English pronunciation: vowels, consonants, stress and the evidence behind each.
Video by Simon Roper, played through YouTube's embedded player.
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