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Re: R: Re: CONLANG Digest - 22 Nov 2000 & Daimyo verbs

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Monday, November 27, 2000, 15:44
En réponse à Mangiat <mangiat@...>:

> Muke wrote: > > > > From: Robert Hailman <robert@...> > > > Subject: Re: Hellenish oddities > > > > > > On it's own, I say it [T], in words like <diphthong> I say [fT]. > [fT] is > > > just too hard to begin a word with for me. > > > > Most people seem to pronounce (and misspell) it "dipthong", i.e, with > [pT]. > > No problem, here: in Italian it is 'dittongo' /dit'toNgo/. >
French takes it half-way: it's "diphtongue" /dif'tO~g/ whose pronunciation is completely unambiguous, and not difficult. Christophe.