Re: Pidgin Gothic (Was: Re: New Lang, but Just For Fun)
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 22, 2000, 10:45 |
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At 22:31 -0800 21.1.2000, DOUGLAS KOLLER wrote:
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>I believe Amoy dialect is "de4". Unvoiced, unaspirated.
>"Cha2" is Mandarin. Tagalog? You're on your own.
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>Kou
Most modern Indo-Aryan languages have borrowed "cha". Russian has "chaj",
by way of Turkish. That Amoy dialect "de4" became [te:] in the west is
probably due to having passed through Portuguese, where "t" is unaspirated.
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