Re: Basque & Katzner's Languages of the World

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On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, David Peterson wrote:

> In a message dated 11/18/01 11:56:56 AM, cowan@MERCURY.CCIL.ORG writes:
>
> << The first four letters of the alphabet in Arabic and Amharic respectively
> (except it's "abugida", not "abugadi").  Just like "alphabet" from
> alpha-beta. >>
>
>     The first four letters in the Arabic alphabet are alef, baa, taa, Taa...
> Seems like it'd give some sort of word like "alefbaatatha" [&lIfb&4VTV]
> (American pronunciation).
For interests' sake, I would've pronounced that as [{l@fb@tA:T@] or
[Al@fb@tA:T@], possibly with a -t- rather than -T- (the A--form being more
likely for me because the final vowel and dbl a are dead give aways that
the word is foreign in origin).

Tristan

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