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Re: USAGE: Chinese Romanization (was: USAGE: Help with Chinese phrase)

From:Tamás Racskó <tracsko@...>
Date:Wednesday, September 8, 2004, 10:19
On 8 Sep 2004 John Cowan <cowan@CCI...> wrote:

> BTW, Turkish has an interesting convention that I didn't know about > until recently: a circumflex accent on a back vowel means that the > preceding consonant is palatalized
This is why Osmanli borrowings in Serb show a palatal consonant [an alveolo-palatal affricate in central dialects to be correct] in these positions: Cf. English |giaour| < Serb |djaur| /dz\aur/ < Osmanli |ga^vur|. (In Hungarian we have more examples of Serb origin.)