Re: NATLANGS: What's that writing system?
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 11, 2006, 6:43 |
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On 7/11/06, Paul Joseph Schleitwiler, FCM <pjschleitwilerfcm@...> wrote:
[about German "Thal"]
> The 'th' represents an aspirated t, not a Þ.
Is that what it is?
I thought the "h" in that context served to indicate that the vowel
was long (as "h" still often does in modern German when it follows a
vowel), though the placement before the vowel seems odd to someone
accustomed only to modern German spelling rules. I also thought the
"h" in "roth" (red), also long since abolished, was there for the same
reason.
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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