Re: OT: "Yugoslavia" in Greek

Hi!

Philip Newton writes:
>...
> I was puzzled by the Greek approach of transcribing [w] as [Gu] as
> well (e.g. [GuElkam], [Guasinton]), too, until I realised that both
> [w] and [G] have a velar component... which I suppose does make them a
> bit similar.
But that's exactly the source of all those _g_ in Romance from
Germanic /w/, like in English 'guard'. :-)

**Henrik