Re: R: Re: CONLANG Digest - 22 Nov 2000 & Daimyo verbs
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, November 27, 2000, 15:44 |
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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.