<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>I heard a Pakistani on a radio-call in show refer to Afghanistan and the phoneme after the /f/ was something unusual-- I couldn't tell what. Does anyone know what the 'gh' represents in the native language (s)? Before I heard it I might have guessed it was a voiced velar fricative, but I'm pretty sure that wasn't it.
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<BR>Dale Coye
<BR>The College of NJ</FONT></HTML>