Re: OT: Latin subject-verb agreement

>"T. A. McLeay" <conlang@...> wrote:
>The Burmese words for "Burma" and "Myanmar" contain no /r/.* For
>instance, "Myanmar" is "Myanma" in Burmese, and "Burma" is "Bama".
>The <r> represents a low tone because low tones are long and
>long /a:/ is represented in non-rhotic English as <ar>. Americans
>pronounce an /r/ that does not exist in the original word, because
>it is based on an orthography not intended for them.
>[*]: Historically the my- of "Myanmar" was mr-
Fascinating!  Who knew?  But I'm wondering if we should limit the /r/
to Americans.  I copied the following from the Wiktionary entry.


Chinese: &#32517;&#30008; (Mi&#462;ndiàn)
Croatian: Burma (hr) f.
Dutch: Birma
Esperanto: Birmo
Finnish: Burma (fi)
French: Birmanie
Greek: &#914;&#953;&#961;&#956;&#945;&#957;&#943;&#945; (virmanía)
f., &#924;&#965;&#945;&#957;&#956;&#940;&#961; (mianmár) n.,
&#924;&#960;&#959;&#973;&#961;&#956;&#945; (búrma)
f.
Hebrew: &#1489;&#1493;&#1512;&#1502;&#1492; (burma)
Interlingua: Birmania
Italian: Birmania (it)
Japanese: &#12499;&#12523;&#12510; (Biruma)
Maltese: Burma (mt)
Myanmar: &#4121;&#4153;&#4123;&#4116;&#4153;&#8204;&#4121;&#4140;
(Myanm&#257;), &#4119;&#4121;&#4140; (Bam&#257;)
Norwegian: Burma (no)
Polish: Birma f.
Portuguese: Birmânia f.
Russian: &#1041;&#1080;&#1088;&#1084;&#1072; (Bírma) f.
Spanish: Birmania (es) f.
Swedish: Burma (sv)

Charlie

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