User talk:Hamilqart

Ancient Greek upsilon
Hey, you changed the transliteration of upsilon in Syracuse, Sicily and Thucydides from y (Syrákousai, Thoukydídēs) to u (Surákousai, Thoukudídēs), saying that Ancient Greek wasn't iotacistic. But upsilon was probably already pronounced or  in Ancient Greek, certainly in the later part of the Ancient Greek period. (y doesn't represent full iotacism, meaning pronunciation as .) WP:IPA for Greek gives as the pronunciation of Ancient Greek upsilon. So I'm going to change the transliterations back from u to y. — Eru·tuon 23:32, 31 May 2011 (UTC)


 * I have understood that generally adopted convention is to transliterate upsilon as "U" only as the final element in diphthongs.--Dblk (talk) 00:05, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi, If you feel strongly about this issue I suggest you seek a RfC here: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Greek) Cheers,--Dblk (talk) 22:35, 1 June 2011 (UTC)