Re: NATLANGS: What's that writing system?
| From: | Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, July 10, 2006, 17:54 |
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Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:
> On 7/10/06, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> wrote:
> > And they say "Echiopia de wa", or roughly, "In Ethiopia, ..."
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> ...and "chi" is phonemically "ti". And the Ethiopians I know refer to
> it as something like /i:'tjo.pi.ja/. So why does it have a /T/ in
> English? Is that a spelling pronunciation, like the way we used to
> pronounce "Neanderthal" before we were edjumacated as to the proper
> French pronunciation? Or has the English version of the name been
> around long enough to have gone through the same path as other words
> with /T/?
I'll hazard that the English is a spelling pronunciation, but the Mod Greek
pronunciation is presumably with [T].
As for "Neanderthal", that's Greek-German, so I don't know why the French
pronunciation would be considered "proper".
Andreas
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