Re: the letter H
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 15, 2003, 4:06 |
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Quoting "<Wilhelm Ulrich Schlaier>" <SMITHV637@...>:
> how is the aspirated sound of H written in Greek And Cyrillic?
It depends on the language. Russian, which lost /h/ long
ago, historically borrows foreign words with /h/ as /g/,
written <g>. (This is due to the influence of Ukrainian,
which borrows /h/ as /G/, which corresponds to Russian /g/).
Modern words from English are sometimes borrowed as /x/.
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