{"id":1437,"date":"2009-08-13T08:36:16","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T07:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2009-08-13T08:36:16","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T07:36:16","slug":"t%c9%aca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/t%c9%aca\/","title":{"rendered":"\/(t)\u026ca\/"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nTiger eating his meat<\/a>
\nOriginally uploaded by Tambako the Jaguar<\/a>
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Anna has her own vocabulary.<\/p>\n

Most of the words are based on English or Danish ones – \/?a?a\/ for ‘flower’, \/ka\/ for ‘cat’, \/m?\/ for ‘sheep’ (Danish m\u00e6h<\/i> ‘bah’), etc.<\/p>\n

However, her word for ‘meat, sausage, burger’ doesn’t seem to be based on any word known to us: \/(t)?a\/ (that is, as if it had been a Welsh word spelled lla<\/i>, or a Zulu one spelled hla<\/i>, but sometimes the fricative becomes an affricate as in Nahuatl ‘tl’).<\/p>\n

Funnily enough, although I find it easy to recognise what she’s saying thanks to my training in phonetics, the rest of the family make their own approximations: Marcel says \/?la\/, Charlotte opts for \/kla\/, and Phyllis is adamant that Anna says \/xla\/.<\/p>\n

I believe similar things happen to Welsh place names in English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tiger eating his meat Originally uploaded by Tambako the Jaguar Anna has her own vocabulary. Most of the words are based on English or Danish ones – \/?a?a\/ for ‘flower’, \/ka\/ for ‘cat’, \/m?\/ for ‘sheep’ (Danish m\u00e6h ‘bah’), etc. However, her word for ‘meat, sausage, burger’ doesn’t seem to be based on any word known to us: \/(t)?a\/ (that is, as if it had been a Welsh word spelled lla, or a Zulu one spelled hla, but sometimes the fricative becomes an affricate as in Nahuatl […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,115,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-kids","category-linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}