Re: USAGE: Thorn vs Eth
From: | tim talpas <tim@...> |
Date: | Thursday, July 11, 2002, 2:51 |
#
# Kendra wrote:
# > I'm curious as to how many natural languages have th and dh, as I heard that
# > not many do. Anyone? :)
#
# Modern Greek for one. Castilian Spanish has /T/ and [D] as an allophone
# of /d/. Icelandic has /T/ and /D/. I can't think of any others
# off-head. Those are fairly rare.
#
Albanian. And my very limited experience with it tells me that /T/ and /D/
aren't as marginal as in say, english, or icelandic.
-tim
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