Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 23:00:49 +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: <20000407230049.B57071@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <20000407134927.A9405@sofia.csl.sri.com> References: <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> <20000407223946.A57071@mithrandr.moria.org> <20000407134927.A9405@sofia.csl.sri.com>
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On Fri 2000-04-07 (13:49), Marco Molteni wrote: > > 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. > > are those languages using the latin alphabet as their own alphabet, or > are you "mapping" the original alphabet to the latin one (as you may > do with, eg, russian)? > > (sorry for my imprecisions but I am not a linguist ;-) Yes, the commonly used written form of Xhosa is a mapping to the latin alphabet with occasional modifiers (such as 'h' after consonants). Three utterly unpronouncable-to-the-English-tongue clicks replace 'c', 'q', and 'x' (since 'c' is either 'k' or 's', and 'q' is usually 'k', and 'x' is usually 'ks'). 'h' is either a guttural scottish 'ch' sound, or a modifier which indicates more "air" in the pronunciation. It's actually a very beautiful language, but the curriculum I learnt at school wasn't very good, and I haven't been able to find another way to learn it. 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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