Michael the Grammarian’s Irony about hypsilon
Michael the Grammarian’s Irony about hypsilon

Summary/Abstract: Poem IV of Michael the Grammarian edited by Mercati may be dated to ca. 1030 because of a reference to Philip of Amorion. Since the poem contains clear references to the different pronunciation of the letter iota and hypsilon one may deduce that at that time they effectively represented two different sounds. This is also confirmed by the near contemporary evidence of Church Slavonic. If hypsilon represented a sound similar to a French u or a German ü there are important consequences for the study of Anatolian dialects as well as codicology.

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