Another specimen of me reading in a reconstruction of a form of Iron Age Hebrew pronunciation in all its ejective glory: the beginning of Genesis 29.

And here's Psalm 117 performed with responsory which is probably how it was done in synagogues in Palestine/the Land of Israel in this period.

For another specimen of reconstructed Tiberian Hebrew pronunciation, here's me reading psalm 120 from the Aleppo Codex.

Not only did I decide that Jabberwocky needs to exist in Middle English, but I also decided that it needed to be recorded.

Lots of Old English words, particularly poetic ones, don't have reflexes that survive into Middle English. This was one very weird way to fix some instances of that.

OTOH here's a shot at how the passage might have sounded like in the Iron Age

I make some assumptions here (incl. that the passage existed in this form then). There's uncertainty re: some major sound changes' chronology

Heads up: don't listen if you don't like hearing the tetragrammaton pronounced

A reading of the famous "Once More Unto The Breach" speech from Shakespeare's Henry V in a reconstruction of very early 17th century pronunciation. The king gets surprised mid-speech.

(This is a relatively conservative accent for the period, w/ even the long mid-vowels still relatively low.)

If you're wondering about the labiodental vav & uvular resh, yes, those do seem to have been features of Tiberian reading

The Babylonian reading though had alveolar resh & labiovelar vav. Here's the same passage in a (very tentative) reconstruction of Old Babylonian pronunciation from the period...

The beginning of the Shma read by me in Khan's reconstruction of Tiberian Hebrew pronunciation. This pronunciation is the one the vowel diacritics we now know originally represented. This is the closest I think we can come to an idea of how Hebrew was read in liturgy in 10th century Abbasid Tiberias

Speaking of which, here's me reading the villainous opening speech from Richard III in a reconstruction of early 17th century pronunciation.

In which I read Shakespeare's Sonnet 15 in a reconsteruction of early 17th century pronunciation

Happy International Women's day.

In honor of which (& because I love how modern Tajik poets play w/ the Persianate tradition) here's me reading "Daughter's Song" by Zulfiya Atoi in Tajik.

My translation is on screen in the video with a Perso-Arabic transcription for the Cyrillically impaired.

In which I read Shakespeare's Sonnet 81 in a reconstruction of early 17th century pronunciation