Re: Changing Addresses and Nopcsa

[Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>]

Quoting Chris Bennett <cbennett@bridgeport.edu>:

> > * Yes, cs. In Hungarian, cs is pronounced cs, while sc would be pronounced
> > shts. Because they don't like consonant clusters, sc doesn't exist.
> Despite
> > its usage in heaps of at least English literature.
> 
> To say that cs is pronounced cs doesn't tell me anything because in English
> c can be hard like a k or soft like an s.  Is that cs like s, ss, ks, z, zh,
> ...?

<cs> stands for the same sound in Hungarian that <ch> does in English.  
Incidentally, in Hungarian, <s> is "sh", <z> is as in English, <sz> is "s", 
and <zs> is "zh", as in English *measure*.

Also, <y> does not represent a vowel in Hungarian; instead, it serves to 
palatalize or "soften" consonants, as in the combinations <ny>, <ly>, <ty>, 
and <gy>.

Nick Pharris
Department of Linguistics
University of Michigan