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Language, vocal organs and barbarophonoi: Strabo, 14.2.28

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2021
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Redondo Reyes, P.
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Filología Clásica Filología Clásica
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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5426-3848
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©<2021>. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-SA 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ This document is the Published/ Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in [Humanitas]. To access the final edited and published work see[https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5426-3848]
Abstract
The geographer Strabo, commenting on the Homeric term “barbarophōnoi”, upholds the onomatopoeic origin of the term barbaros and outlines an history of its usage, which goes from the meaning of “speak roughly” to the one of “mispronunciation” of Greek (Geog. 14.2.28). In order to interpret the passage, pertinent texts from the medical and acoustic-musical are discussed. It is concluded that Strabo is familiar with the ideas about voice and language from the Greek tradition, which lead him to a definition of barbaros based, mainly, on a linguistic criterion.
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Strabo , barbarophonoi , language , vocal organs
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78
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https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/humanitas
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http://hdl.handle.net/10201/114983
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