Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 22:39:46 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Marco Molteni <molter@sofia.csl.sri.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDCon East Message-ID: <20000407223946.A57071@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <20000407102159.B8417@sofia.csl.sri.com> References: <20000404152346.01398@techunix.technion.ac.il> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004042145500.88181-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <8cgj1a$313f$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <v04220805b511f7c7e2a6@[195.238.1.121]> <8cj1cg$1gse$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <xzpya6qp2rq.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <v04220806b5137b59347a@[195.238.1.121]> <xzpn1n5q1ny.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20000407102159.B8417@sofia.csl.sri.com>
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On Fri 2000-04-07 (10:21), Marco Molteni wrote: > > No, but knowing Latin (even just a little Latin) helps a lot. It also > > helps a lot for learning English, Spanish, Italian and, to a lesser > > degree, several other European languages. > > I would like to introduce you all to a language where there is NO > difference between spelling and pronunciation: Italian. I am wondering > if there are other languages with this feature. isiXhosa, I think. And if so, the majority of the Nguni languages of Southern Africa. There is a slight stress on the second-last syllable, and some obvious modifiers. While the "h" in "hl" is pronounced differently than the "h" in "kh", "hl" is always pronounced the same. Ndifuna ukuba ndisaze isiXhosa kakuhle. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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