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Re: NATLANG/Learning : Sanskrit

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 13, 2003, 20:11
Mark J. Reed scripsit:

> Dumb question, but what sound does the <c> represent? (And I assume you > are using Pinyin?)
Yes I am, and in Pinyin "c" represents [s\_h], curly-tail c with aspiration, an aspirated voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative. -- First known example of political correctness: John Cowan "After Nurhachi had united all the other http://www.reutershealth.com Jurchen tribes under the leadership of the http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Manchus, his successor Abahai (1592-1643) jcowan@reutershealth.com issued an order that the name Jurchen should --S. Robert Ramsey, be banned, and from then on, they were all _The Languages of China_ to be called Manchus."