Karud: the weapon that did not exist:-)

Sajen · 19th August 2017, 03:05 AM

Outstanding research Ariel!

shayde78 · 19th August 2017, 03:44 AM

Impressive.

A. G. Maisey · 19th August 2017, 04:20 AM

After reading Ariel's beautiful little piece of work, I took the trouble to ring a couple of friends who are much better equipped than I am to comment on the matter of Persian pronunciation.

The first is a linguist, the second has an Iranian wife.

It seems that in Modern Iranian, and also in some other Middle Eastern languages, when the letter "r" appears in the middle of a word and it precedes "d" the "r" is pronounced with a soft roll of the tongue, not a hard roll as in Spanish, or Scots, but a soft, almost imperceptible roll and that gives the perception of another vowel in between the "r" and the "d".

19th August 2017, 03:05 AM	#1
Sajen Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Germany, Dortmund Posts: 9,417	Outstanding research Ariel!

19th August 2017, 03:44 AM	#2
shayde78 Member Join Date: Mar 2017 Posts: 445	Impressive.

19th August 2017, 04:20 AM	#3
A. G. Maisey Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 7,085	After reading Ariel's beautiful little piece of work, I took the trouble to ring a couple of friends who are much better equipped than I am to comment on the matter of Persian pronunciation. The first is a linguist, the second has an Iranian wife. It seems that in Modern Iranian, and also in some other Middle Eastern languages, when the letter "r" appears in the middle of a word and it precedes "d" the "r" is pronounced with a soft roll of the tongue, not a hard roll as in Spanish, or Scots, but a soft, almost imperceptible roll and that gives the perception of another vowel in between the "r" and the "d".