Re: TH
Ivan Danicic wrote:
> Hello gurus, I'd like to get a list of world languages which use the
> (English) TH sound, voiced and/or unvoiced. So far I only know of English,
> Spanish (Castillian), Greek, Icelandic. Any info will be gratefully
> received.
> Ivan
I transcribe thse sounds [T] (voiceless] and [D] (voiced).
I knew lots of people from the Indian subcontinent in Britain, and this
sound seems widespread. I know a Pakistani from Multan who pronounces
it [mUlTa:n].
My former boss, a Sinhalese speaker from Sri Lanka, spelt her name
Thejani and pronounced it [Te:dZa:ni]. She said it comes from _thejas_
[Te:dZ^s] meaning 'bravery'. I recognised this as the Sanskrit word
_tejas-_.
[T] and [D] seem to be common modern realisations of the phonemes
congate with Sanskrit dental _t_ and _d_ in the north and the south of
the subcontinent, despite the long time depth of separation between
North Indic and Sinhalese. (5th century AD, is it? I forget.)
I have a distant memory of once reading that /t/ and /d/ are more
commonly realised as [T] and [D] in western dialects of Hindi, and more
commonly as [t] and [d] (dental stops) in eastern dialects.
I once heard a rumour that Polish uses [T] in the personal name Ruth
but in know other word. I have no idea if that's true or not.
Samuel
Disclaimer: Nothing in this post should be considered factual. I may
have dreamt it all, or invented it while drunk.
.
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