Re: tlhn'ks't, ngghlyam'ft, and other scary words
| From: | Joseph Fatula <fatula3@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 6, 2003, 8:44 |
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From: "Jan van Steenbergen" <ijzeren_jan@...>
Subject: Re: tlhn'ks't, ngghlyam'ft, and other scary words
> --- Danny Wier skrzypszy:
>
> > ridiculous spelling conventions. Tetragraphs. English has <ough> with
six
> > pronunciations, Polish has <szcz> for /StS/, Kabardian has Cyrillic
<kx"w>
> > (" = hard sign) for /qw/ (non-ejective).
>
> Yes, but Polish <szcz> consists of two phonemes, not one. AFAIK in Russian
it
> is one phoneme, and written with one character: _w,_
>
> Most languages need a lot of characters to represent it:
> _schtsch_ (German. Yes! A heptagraph!)
> _chtch_ (French)
> _sjtsj_ (Dutch)
> _shch_ (English)
> _szcz_ (Polish)
> _scs_ (Hungarian)
> _s^c^_ (Czech)
> etc.
>
> Jan
Wait! Reading this, I remembered that there is a tetragraph that most of
you will be familiar with, and it represents a single phoneme, German "tsch"
for /tS/.