Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 23:54:04 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>, Marc Ramirez <mrami@mrami.homeunix.org>, Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Aryan and Dravidian (was: French, Flemish and English (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c)) Message-ID: <3CEF350C.78035DCF@mindspring.com> References: <20020525052539.GA1871@lpt.ens.fr>
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Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > And while we're on that subject :) the "l" in "Tamil" is not an "l", > but a sound which doesn't have an exact equivalent in other languages > (except Malayalam). It's something between an "l", an unrolled "r" > and a "y" -- perhaps something like the Japanese "l/r" sound. It's > sometimes transliterated "zh" in English but that's even more unlike > the true sound than "l". I was going to say "r in Japanese and zh in Mongolian"... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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