Re: tlhn'ks't, ngghlyam'ft, and other scary words
| From: | Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 6, 2003, 8:29 |
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--- 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
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