Re: German affricates (was: affricates/grammar help/intransitivity/free word order)

From:	Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:	Monday, January 3, 2005, 0:29

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Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:

> > The FAZ seems to prefer 'Chan' as common noun; I cannot recall reading of
> > TemmÃ¼jin (I suppose German writes "TemmÃ¼dschin"?) in it, but it did use
> 'Khan'
> > in the personal names of some Afghanistani figures.
> >
> >                                                           Andreas
> >
> >
>
> Ha! In proper romanization it is _qaÎ³an_ and pronounced [XA:n]!
> The Marco Polo manuscripts spell it _can_, BTW.
Why the "ha!"? My [xa:n] is still closer to the original than the alternative
[ka:n] is.

                                              Andreas

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