Re: "th" sounds in loanwords
- From: "G. Leo Sahakian" <glsah@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 06:09:48 +0200
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> India's Delhi would have to be spelt <Dilli> in order to be
pronounced
> correctly and even then, among Europeans, only Italians would
pronounce
> it properly with both a dental [d[] and geminate [ll].
I am not convinced; isn't the 1st i lax and open (like en. i in
sit, not an it. sound)? it. i is closed; then they (the Ital.)
would stress the 1st syllable, which, I think, is not the case in
hi.; lastly the last i would be short (as all unstressed vowels)
in it., whereas it is long in hi. [dIlli:].
the spelling delhi is due to the alternative de:hli:, pers. dehlî;
does lh look "better" for the british than hl? or the h in hl is
more liable to be lost in pronuniation than in lh? cf. alhambra,
calhoun, mulhearn, philhamonic, etc.
this is half as bad as the fr. [kalkyta] calcutta or [lykno]
lucknow!
regards,
G. Leo Sahakian
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