УНИВЕРЗИТЕТ „СВ. КИРИЛ И МЕТОДИЈ“ – СКОПЈЕ

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/dz/ This phoneme is always written with the graphemes , as for
example, the word nádzat that is written νάτζατ. The affricate /dz/ is homographic
with the affricate /c/.
/i/ This phoneme is written with the graphemes and the digraphs
. All these ways of writing are present in the manuscript and their use
is controlled mainly by the Greek graphotactics. Of all the graphemes used to
represent /i/, grapheme and the digraph are the least used. The use of
is limited mainly to some isolated lexemes, but it occurs regularly in them.
These lexemes include, for example, Σáν, Γοσποδύν, and σáλα (stdr. Mac. син,
господин ja сила). At least in these words, the use of might be due to the
fact, that their equivalents on the Greek side of the manuscript all include the
letter υ: Υƒός Κύριος ja δύναμις (Lindstedt, personal communication).
/j/ This phoneme is often written with an and a diaresis. is used
mainly, when /j/ follows a vowel. For instance, the verb prikažúvaj appears as
πρικαζγ΄ÿβαϊ. The same way of writing is used in Greek, when jota is pronounced
separately from a digraph (εϊ, οϊ, αϊ).
Word-initial /j/ is depicted in two ways. Sometimes it is written with a
and a ligature conjoined to one of the following graphemes . It
can also be written with a palatal arc under the vowel, before which the /j/ is
intended. To exemplify these two usages are the two common ways to write
the personal pronoun jáze: ι-¥ζε or ¥ÿζε.
/k/ This phoneme is written with a . In addition, /k/ is written with
the grapheme that depicts the two phonemes /ks/. The grapheme occurs
only three times in the text.
/l/ This phoneme is written with a .
/l’/ This phoneme is written with a and a following grapheme
conjoined with a ligature to one of the following graphemes , or, with a
and a palatal arc below the following vowel. An example of these two ways
of writing are the words puvél’a and nal’utí, written as πγβέλι-α and ναλγÿτί.
/m/ This phoneme is written with a .
/n/ This phoneme is written with a . Unlike a majority of the consonants,
/n/ can occur doubled in the text. For example, in the verb panná (aorist,
1. pers. sg.), the assimilation of [d] and [n] has produced a doubled /n/.
/n’/ This phoneme is written with and the following grapheme
conjoined with a ligature to one of the following graphemes . As an example,
the word cvetín’ata is written as τζβετίνι-ατα. However, not all –
– ligature sequences are unambigous, as the two forms of the following lexeme
exemplify: γ΄μρένι-γτ and γ΄μρένιτε. If the first one is interpreted as umrén’ut,
then the second should be equally umrén’ite. It is more likely that the writer
has intended either the sequence /-ni-/, or /-nij-/.
/o/ This phoneme is written either with an , or an . Both ways
are present in the text, and the occurrences are often regulated by the Greek