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From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
Subject: Re: Etymology of 'tea'
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Date: Fri, 23 Dec 1994 19:27:40 GMT
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In article <3d7ab4$3ja@agate.berkeley.edu> patchew@uclink2.berkeley.edu (Patrick Chew) writes:
>>(Greek doesn't have the explosive 'ch').
>
>	Neither does Standard Khalkha Mongolian, which also uses <tsai>.  

Um, `tea' is indeed _caj_ in Mongolian, but do you really mean to say
that it has no shibilant affricate?  What sounds do the Cyrillic letters
usually romanised as _ch_ and _zh_ stand for?  (What is the initial
sound of the second person singular pronoun?)

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