Re: Hinession Dialect Continuums

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Danny Wier <dawier@H...> wrote:
 > From: "Andreas Johansson" <andjo@F...>
 >
 > > 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".
 >
 > /ht/ can be found in some Native American languages, at least Algonquian
 > ones. Icelandic realizes voiceless stops as preaspirated when
doubled, IIRC.

Finnish has /ht/ too.



-- Christian Thalmann

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