Re: USAGE: XH etc. (was: RE: RV: Old English)
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 2, 2000, 12:10 |
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At 15:54 01.4.2000 -0500, Tim Smith wrote:
> > So I understand, too. There is a well-known artist here in S.Florida
> >(presumably of Hungarian descent) named John Kiraly, usually called
> >[kI'rali], versus the Olympic water-polo/volleyball? star of a few years
> >back, Karch Kiraly, called [kI'rai]. Ya pays yer money.....
> >
>
>And the sight-singing exercises that I used in freshman music theory were
>by Zoltan Kodaly, which I've always heard pronounced as [ko'dai].
Right. Just like many varieties of Spanish Hungarian has merged the
palatal lateral [l_j] with /j/. I suspect that original _Vj_ might still
be distinct from _Vly_ by the latter being more fricative. I guess And
will have to pay a visit to his folks to find out! ;-)
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson <mailto:bpj@...>bpj@netg.se
<mailto:melroch@...>melroch@my-deja.com
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