Re: USAGE: XH etc. (was: RE: RV: Old English)

In a message dated 3/30/2000 9:40:28 PM Eastern Standard Time,
a.rosta@PMAIL.NET writes:

<< "Xhosa" = /k@Us@/ and /h@Us@/ on BBC; I myself am unsure how to pronounce
 it in either English or Xhosa - I've a vague idea it starts with some kind
 of lateral click, but expect to be enlightened by responses to this
 message.>>
    That's my vague idea, too.  Awaiting further enlightenment.

 /'Env@ 'hQdZ@/ pretty universally in Britain;  >>
    IINM, "hoja" is probably < Arabic.  In Indonesian, a "hoja" is sort of
the care-taker of a mosque; originally probably a more lofty meaning.  One of
the Arabo-Iranian words we have learned in recent years is _hojatulislam_
(servant of Islam??), a clerical rank somewhere below an ayatullah.