Re: Chocolate?
| From: | Christian Thalmann <cinga@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, February 8, 2002, 19:09 |
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--- In conlang@y..., Clint Jackson Baker <litrex1@Y...> wrote:
> Could anyone give me the translation (or site, if the
> script is non-Roman) of the word "chocolate" in
> natlangs?
Which discussion about chocolate could be complete without
a mentioning of Switzerland? ;-)
The Swiss-German word for chocolate is Schoggi /"Sok.ki/.
It's written with geminate {g} because {k} would yield an
affricate /kX/. Yep, that's a uvular fricative. =)
-- Christian Thalmann
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