[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

[lojban-beginners] Re: Hello




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.