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Re: The Combos [hj] [hw] and [gw] in Conlangs

From:D Tse <exponent@...>
Date:Friday, November 3, 2000, 8:02
Hello all.

A while ago when this topic was going around, someone cited the word hyaku,
Japanese for "hundred" as an occurence of the /hj/ sound, but said that he
or she couldn't find any native instances of the combination "hyu" to begin
a word other than the loan word "hyuuzu" for fuse.

Quite recently I was looking at a Japanese railway map and noted the name
of a place in Tokyo called Hyuuga, written with the Kanji characters "sun"
and "facing". It's a strange word not read using the normal pronounciation.

Just in case anyone was wondering.

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