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

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