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a comment by a user called Yaroslav about the pronunciation of arm has given rise to two what I'm going to talk about here um mr. Yash Lavrov says that I

should be paying attention to my pronunciation of the letter R and that he said my R should be more soft not harsh and that I should listen to some I should listen to some Italian songs and

catch the real sound of are now comments on pronunciation are very frequent on my channel which is in restored classical pronunciation across Europe various types of continental pronunciation are

used and not a large number of people use the restored classical pronunciation in England it's it's normal and it's been standard since the end of the 1800s but it certainly isn't the case in Italy

and in other parts of of Europe where plantations that are derived from medieval pronunciations hold sway and only a few people use the restored classical pronunciation the question is

what did the Roman R sound like and for this we have quite good authority Victoria knows for example says this he says err why we brought you on a walk is in pilato which has a vibrating voice in

the palate lingual fatigue your frog or when tremulous activist read it so there's a broken sound of vibrating bits of the tongue on the palate which is a trilled sound and donatus

gives a slightly different version Dickey tore out him welcome our Connie booth because the Romans called this the dog letter we restrict his den taboos with the teeth – like this hunt little

ram air II me Tonto so dogs imitate the sound of this letter R by going which gives us a guttural sound so we have two different discussion – two different versions of how the letter R sounded

neither of them particularly soft or gentle so here I'm looking at walks latina by Sidney Allen WS Allen which is the standard reference for restored classical pronunciation so he says this

there is evidence that the Latin are was of the tongue tip drilled or rolled type common in Scotland and this is quite a strong letter it's not a weak mellifluous Italian sounding letter

apart from imprecise early descriptions of a sound as being like the growling of a dog which is what I referred to there in the quote from donatus we have clear reference to its vibrant nature in the

later grammarians in the words of Tarantino's malroux's we brought tremulous activists are Eden Sonoran so it vibrates with shaking beats a dry sound so that's quite a clear statement

about the nature of of the are and in the Classical period which is what we're dealing with we have a drill which is described by the later writers I'm going to look now

briefly at Bennett the history sounds and inflections of the Latin language and he says this about the letter R R was filled with the tip of the tongue and as is clearly described by

Corinthians mouths and Mario's victorinos the name litora tan Nina given to our as early as Lukey Lewis agrees excellently with the enunciation attributed to the letter so

R as the ancient Romans pronounced it was a virile man : sounding letter not a soft mellifluous one and Rome and the Roman man which was a very militaristic strong masculine sounding language

it wasn't soft the Continental medieval plantation which is now known as the ecclesiastical pronunciation is indeed very soft and the consonants are softened the sound is much softened this

is not the case with restored classical pronunciation which is a harsh virile masculine sounding a language and some people don't like the sound of restored classical for this reason that it has

this roughness to it but the Romans were a rough people they weren't soft and educated philosophers like the Greeks there were bridge builders and dome builders and land conquerors so that's

my little bit on the letter R and restored classical pronunciation of Latin while by