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

Quoting "J. 'Mach' Wust" <j_mach_wust@...>:

> On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 20:49:00 +0100, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
> wrote:
>
> >> I suppose I *would* pronounce a word like _Chan_ with [x-],
> >> but that's got more to do with a vague awareness of Mongolian than with
> >> anything I've learnt in German class (Duden gives both [xa:n] and [ka:n],
> >> and seems to prefer the spelling |Khan|, which IMVLE is less common).
> >
> >I have the opposite impression; I can't remember seeing "Chan" in
> >German -- for example, the standard spelling for the well-known
> >historical figure is "Dschingis Khan", I'd say.
>
> That's what I think, too.
Sure. I did say very limited experience!

The FAZ seems to prefer 'Chan' as common noun; I cannot recall reading of
Temmüjin (I suppose German writes "Temmüdschin"?) in it, but it did use 'Khan'
in the personal names of some Afghanistani figures.

                                                          Andreas

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