Pronunciation of Khangaþyagon
| From: | Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 20, 2006, 16:33 |
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Looking through the archives, I spotted the following thread, which took
place while I was nomail for a while
http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0504b&L=conlang&I=3&X=1469FE1EE35460A6F5&Y=peter.bleackley%40rd.bbc.co.uk&m=113639&P=12085
Various people's attempts to pronounce Khangaþyagon are given as
ka.na.Tan.'ja.g@n
kaN'gaT.jaN.gon
kaN.ba'Tja:gon
kaN.ga.Tja'gOn
kANgATjA'gon
"XANga"Tja:gOn
"k&.n@.'th&g.jAn
The correct pronunciation is
'x&N&T"j&gon
(although I myself often render the last vowel as O, but I can get away
with this because Tense/Lax isn't phonemic). Some of these may have been
based on an erroneous spelling *Kangathyagon given by the original poster.
The only person who remembered the correct spelling then managed to render
"kh" as X instead of X. I imagine that the way the misspelling came about was
Kh interpreted as k_h
Aspiration forgotten about, since it's not phonemic in English.
Pronunciation remembered as k
Spelling based on remembered pronunciation.
My favourite mispronunciation is kaN.ba'Tja:gon
Pete
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