Re: new Unnamed Conlang

In French, there is a usual confusion between "Khan",
like in Aga Khan, and "Kahn", an German-Jewish name
deriving from Cohen. For ex, we had a minister called
Strauss-Kahn, and I've seen it written Strauss-Khan
many times (he's still alive, but no more a minister
just now). This confusion is popular among
journalists.  Yet normally "Khan" is pronounced like
"quand", while "Kahn" is not nasalized. But the same
journalists also like to pronounce "Maastricht" as if
it were written "Maastritch" (dyslexy helps to be a
French journalist).

--- John Leland <Lelandconlang@...> wrote:

> In a message dated 9/17/04 11:16:22 PM Pacific
> Daylight Time,
> ray.brown@FREEUK.COM writes:
>
> << As for Khan, I have always heard the Kh in Khan
> pronounced exactly like
>  the k in kangaroo; even the students I've taught
> with the surname Khan
>  have pronounced it that way. >>
> On the other hand, when I had a course on the
> medieval Mongolian empire with
> Gavin Hambly (a well-known Central Asian history
> scholar) he pronounced kh
> more like h to my ear.
> John Leland
>

=====
Philippe Caquant


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