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kingofpandora
on Oct 12, 2017
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Arabic characters found woven into burial costumes...
It doesn't. "kh" should be read as a single sound (Arabic or Persian خ) not a sequence of two sounds.
posterboy
on Oct 12, 2017
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both khan and kahn come out as british
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does, I guess, though noone knows what it sounded like originally.
Grustaf
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No they don't, kh is an aspirated k sound. In any case that is not what was mistyped in the original post, it was the second and third syllables that hade changed places.
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