----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Johansson" <andjo@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 5:22 AM
Subject: Re: Hinession Dialect Continuums
> Quoting Tristan <kesuari@...>:
>
> > Elliott Lash wrote:
>
> > > 1) /naG/ /paht/ /gaRs/ /daR/
> > > 2) /nA:G/ /pAht/ /gARs/ /dAR/
> >
> > Is there *really* a /h/ there? That sounds incredibly odd. Anyone know
> > of any natlangs that've done that?
>
> I don't off-hand think of any language I know to have /ht/, but I used to
think
> that a Persian girl I know pronounced the word "Ohm" very odd, till I
realized
> she was simply pronouncing it as written: [o:hm]. Persian, at least in
Roman
> transliteration, does seem to have odd clusters in h-; I'm thinking of
names
> like "Shahrazad" or "Pehlevi".
>
> Andreas
>
Hmm...when I try to pronounce 'ohm' as written, I just end up with [@um_0]