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In You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. we casually touched on topics of the possibility that the text of the VMs may contain Greek words. In the same time we recalled there the problem of the large number of the word ends "y" in the text. So, I decided to compare any Greek text and its most frequent word ends.
We know that "y'-ending takes about 40% in the text of the VMs.
Comparison with Greek texts shew that it is possible to find 40% of the word final letter "-n" (-ν) in some fragments of texts. Of course, I doubt that this statistics will be true for the whole text, nevertheless this iis already more then in Latin. In general, it may be possible in a monotone text with similar descriptions, listings.
1. Προσέχετε τὴν ἐλεημοσύνην ὑμῶν μὴ ποιεῖν ἔμπροσθεν τῶν ἀνθρώπων πρὸς τὸ θεαθῆναι αὐτοῖς· εἰ δὲ μήγε, μισθὸν οὐκ ἔχετε παρὰ τῷ πατρὶ ὑμῶν τῷ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς.
2. Ὅταν οὖν ποιῇς ἐλεημοσύνην, μὴ σαλπίσῃς ἔμπροσθέν σου, ὥσπερ οἱ ὑποκριταὶ ποιοῦσιν ἐν ταῖς συναγωγαῖς καὶ ἐν ταῖς ῥύμαις, ὅπως δοξασθῶσιν ὑπὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων· ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, ἀπέχουσι τὸν μισθὸν αὐτῶν.
This fragment is Matthew 6: 1-2. It contains 58 words, and 25 of them end with "-n", i. e., take 43% of this text.
As I said, the number of these ends vary through the text, and another parts can contain much less, but I think this is the best that I could see in the mentioned context. Especially if a Greek text is transliterated in Latin, the variety of the rest of the frequent Greek word ends may decrease: ε and ὴ = e; ὸ and ῷ = o.
I need to say that not all Greek versions of the Bible contain such a big number of the final letter "n", I took the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., which is most likely equal to the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., it seems they contain the maximal number.
We know that "y'-ending takes about 40% in the text of the VMs.
Comparison with Greek texts shew that it is possible to find 40% of the word final letter "-n" (-ν) in some fragments of texts. Of course, I doubt that this statistics will be true for the whole text, nevertheless this iis already more then in Latin. In general, it may be possible in a monotone text with similar descriptions, listings.
1. Προσέχετε τὴν ἐλεημοσύνην ὑμῶν μὴ ποιεῖν ἔμπροσθεν τῶν ἀνθρώπων πρὸς τὸ θεαθῆναι αὐτοῖς· εἰ δὲ μήγε, μισθὸν οὐκ ἔχετε παρὰ τῷ πατρὶ ὑμῶν τῷ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς.
2. Ὅταν οὖν ποιῇς ἐλεημοσύνην, μὴ σαλπίσῃς ἔμπροσθέν σου, ὥσπερ οἱ ὑποκριταὶ ποιοῦσιν ἐν ταῖς συναγωγαῖς καὶ ἐν ταῖς ῥύμαις, ὅπως δοξασθῶσιν ὑπὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων· ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, ἀπέχουσι τὸν μισθὸν αὐτῶν.
This fragment is Matthew 6: 1-2. It contains 58 words, and 25 of them end with "-n", i. e., take 43% of this text.
As I said, the number of these ends vary through the text, and another parts can contain much less, but I think this is the best that I could see in the mentioned context. Especially if a Greek text is transliterated in Latin, the variety of the rest of the frequent Greek word ends may decrease: ε and ὴ = e; ὸ and ῷ = o.
I need to say that not all Greek versions of the Bible contain such a big number of the final letter "n", I took the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., which is most likely equal to the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., it seems they contain the maximal number.