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<p>Dear Hilary,</p>
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<p>In Thai the letters are named after objects and animals - you can see the list of them on the Wikipedia page
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_alphabet" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk946781" previewremoved="true">
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_alphabet</a>, for example.</p>
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<p>So there are in fact five letters that have the sound of aspirated kh, and these are named kʰɔ. but there is bottle
<span>kʰɔ</span>, egg <span>kʰɔ</span>, buffalo <span>kʰɔ</span> and so on. The words for 'bottle, buffalo and egg' all begin with
<span>kʰ</span>.</p>
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<p>The Meitei alphabet, used for Meitei or Manipuri, names the letters after body parts, and the alphabetical order follows the order of body parts</p>
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<p>k kok 'head'</p>
<p>s səm 'hair'</p>
<p>l lai 'forehead'</p>
<p>m mit 'eye'</p>
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<p>and so on.<br>
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<p>This is one way of naming letters.</p>
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<p>Stephen<br>
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Department of Languages and Linguistics<br>
La Trobe University<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Hilary Smith <hilary_smith@xtra.co.nz><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, 3 July 2017 10:23:47 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> r-n-l-d@lists.unimelb.edu.au<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [RNLD] Names for letters of the alphabet</font>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello all<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are working on developing names for the sounds of Gamilaraay language, i.e. a sort of alphabet with the equivalent of ‘ay’, ‘bee’, ‘see’, ‘(h)aitch’, etc., but also including names for phonemes written as aa, ng, nh, etc.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am basing the approach on one developed for the Maori language in NZ, and I wonder if anyone has developed something similar for any other languages? And any teaching songs (or other materials) to go with it? Any lessons learned would
be very welcome!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hilary<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#660066;mso-fareast-language:EN-NZ">Dr Hilary Smith<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:#660066;mso-fareast-language:EN-NZ">Honorary Affiliate, College of Arts and Social Sciences
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:#660066;mso-fareast-language:EN-NZ">Affiliate, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (COEDL)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:#660066;mso-fareast-language:EN-NZ">Australian National University, Canberra, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:#660066;mso-fareast-language:EN-NZ">Telephone: +61
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