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Subject:	Re: Fijian name - pronunciation?
Author:	Anneza (guest, 155.232.250.51)
Date:	October 16, 2005 at 10:55:01 PM
Reply to:	Re: Fijian name by Cleveland Kent Evans

Cleveland, does your book give pronunciations for these names?

I've long wondered - and asked here a couple of years ago with no results! - how it came about that the surname Rokocoko is pronounced Rokothoko; now that I see Ruci as a Fijian form of Ruth, it looks like another instance of c = th, this time after a high vowel which is closer to what I'd expect. So, is c regularly pronounced like English th in thistle, and if so, who first wrote down the Fijian language?

This is really interesting!

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Messages in this thread:

Fijian name - Lexy Oct 16 2005, 4:09:34 AM
- Re: Fijian name - Cleveland Kent Evans Oct 16 2005, 4:45:32 PM
  - Re: Fijian name - Lexy Oct 17 2005, 12:33:39 AM
  - Re: Fijian name - pronunciation? - Anneza Oct 16 2005, 10:55:01 PM
    - Re: Fijian name - pronunciation? - Cleveland Kent Evans Oct 17 2005, 10:47:48 AM
      - Re: Fijian name - pronunciation? - Anneza Oct 17 2005, 11:27:55 PM

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