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>From: Adam COOPER <adamgarrigus@gmail.com>
>Reply-To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org
>To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org
>Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Hello
>Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 09:45:08 -0400
>
>On 7/21/05, Kio M. Smallwood <sekenre@ukfsn.org> wrote:
> >
> > Is their a particular reason why lojban has no "th" sound? Are their
> > sounds,
> > which are common in other languages, that lojban has deliberately 
>avoided?
>
>
>Thanks for all the Scotland stuff. I'd forgotten about "och aye". -- The
>"th" sound IMHO is not all that common, I think. Even in English dialects 
>it
>devolves to /f/ (London) & /t/ (USA) often enough. In Spanish it devolved 
>to
>/s/ in the south & thence to all of Spanish-America. Arabic has it, but
>otherwise does it show up in Asia at all?

It occurs in Welsh, Icelandic and Greek, as well as Turoyo Syriac (spoken 
around Mardin in Turkey)  and in Coptic.  It also occurs in Burmese (for 
those old enough, remember U Thant, head of the UN in the 60s?)

mu'o mi'e .bobgrif.