From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 56098
Date: 2008-03-28
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From: Patrick Ryan
1) English - English schoolboy German e.g that <-> das, two <-> <zwei>
/sfai/.
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Only if they had an incompetent teacher.
It is /tsWai/.
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I've been taught /tsvaj/
Arnaud
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2) If we can trust Savina's Dictionnaire tay-annamite-français, we
have Siamese /s/ - 'Tay' /th/. However, the less common Siamese /th/
also corresponds to 'Tay' /th/. I think Arnaud has an even better
example from some nearby Chinese dialects.
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Actually this is not exactly a change from *t > *s
but a very odd change from *s > t !
Arnaud
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