For questions about the Latin that was commonly spoken, rather than written (i.e. classical) Latin. Note that this does not refer solely to profanity, but any non-standard, spoken dialect of Latin.
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What academic evidence is there of the pronunciation of gn as ɲn in Vulgar Latin?
I've come across a fairly frequent claim that gn was pronounced as ɲn in vulgar Latin. However, I haven't been able to find any kind of academic sources to back that up. I've found a few sources (and questions answered here) specific to Classical…
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Appendix probi: "cannelam nun canianus"
Appendix probi was a book written in 3rd-4th century AD to correct people's written Latin.
It consists of lines of the form "xxx non yyy", meaning that people commonly wrote yyy, where xxx is the "correct" form.
However, a line reads:
cannelam nun…
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