Re: "th" sounds in loanwords

From: "Nigel Greenwood" <ndsg_mmii@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 27 Apr 2005 07:33:29 -0700

Juuitchan wrote:
> I was wondering about how different languages treat "th" sounds and
> why.
>
> I have read that "muezzin" and "Ramadan" are properly "mueððin" and
> "Ramaðan". So why do we have the versions we do? We retain "th" in
> words such as "theory" and "thermal".

Sometimes, though, a retained "th" can be misleading: eg Rothbart,
Rothschild, etc based on a superseded German orthography.

Nigel

ScriptMaster language resources (Chinese/Modern & Classical
Greek/IPA/Persian/Russian/Turkish):
http://www.elgin.free-online.co.uk

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