From: | Ph. D. <phild@...> |
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Date: | Sunday, July 18, 2004, 2:38 |
Trebor Jung wrote:> > Doesn't Vietnamese have eth, and isn't it /D/?No. Vietnamese has a letter D with a bar through it, but it is not pronounced /D/ and is not related to eth. (Croatian also has a letter D with bar [pronounced differently than the one in Vietnamese], but it seems to have been introduced after the Second World War. Books printed before that time use the digraph "dj" for that sound.) --Ph. D.