From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Apr 7 13:49:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sofia.csl.sri.com (sofia.csl.sri.com [130.107.19.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4611437B605 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 13:49:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from molter@sofia.csl.sri.com) Received: (from molter@localhost) by sofia.csl.sri.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA09414 for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 13:49:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from molter) From: Marco Molteni Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 13:49:27 -0700 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDCon East Message-ID: <20000407134927.A9405@sofia.csl.sri.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000404152346.01398@techunix.technion.ac.il> <8cgj1a$313f$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <8cj1cg$1gse$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <20000407102159.B8417@sofia.csl.sri.com> <20000407223946.A57071@mithrandr.moria.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: <20000407223946.A57071@mithrandr.moria.org>; from nbm@mithrandr.moria.org on Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 10:39:46PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > On Fri 2000-04-07 (10:21), Marco Molteni wrote: > > > 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. 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 ;-) -- Marco Molteni "rough consensus and running code" SRI International, System Design Laboratory To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message