TN: Basque, Osterreich, Loire

All the words starting with "Txomin" are entirely new to me, and I have no idea how to pronounce them. Are they Basque? Can you help with the pronuciation?

Thanks.

they are Basque. My pronunciation of English is suspect, much less Basque. But I've been told Txakoli is "Cha Kol E" and assume the other Tx are also a Cha sound.

Thanks, Dale.

A "ch" sound; "Txomin" would be "cho min".

Btw, "tx" - or, more exactly "x" for "sh" - is not a Basque speciality, but quite common on the Iberian peninsula: you have it in Catalan ("cotxe" for Spanish "coche", car) and in Galician (galego): Rias Baixas (BY-shus) should be quite well-known.

M.

And while we're at it, Txakoli and its variant txakolina mean "wine" in Basque.

Mark Lipton

Thanks, Michael. It's interesting that when Chinese characters are transliterated into Roman letters using the modern Pinyin system, they also use the letter "x" to represent a similar sound. For example, the city of Xian is pronounced something like she-an. I wonder whether the Chinese took that from the Spanish.

Ken Blake wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Txomin= /'Cho min/ Txakoli= /'Cha ko li/ this /li/ like the "li" in "I live", not in "all my live"

Best,

Santiago

Thank you.