[lojban-beginners] Re: Differently-shaped vocal equipment

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Thursday 21 June 2007 12:32, Turniansky, Michael [UNK] wrote:
>   Actually, lojban does have a "th" sound.  It's one valid
> pronounciation of the y'y ('), because the "h" sound as martin points
> out, doesn't exist in many languages, like French, Spanish, and Russian.
> "th" does exist in at least Spanish and Russian (at least in borrowed
> words for the latter.  Not sure if it exists in native words), some
> Sepharidic Hebrew dialects,  and Greek.  I don't know if it occurs in
> French, although I think not.

"th" exists in Spanish as pronounced in Spain. Other dialects pronounce it the 
same as "s". It does not exist in French; my father worked on "uretan", and 
if you heard him say "three free trees", you'd be puzzled for a second. 
Jerriais, which is spoken not far from where he grew up, does have something 
written "th", which corresponds to French "r".

Pierre