New English (?) name: Jhan

[James Harbeck]

For what it's worth, a Malay named in an article I read last year (I
think in Harper's, but it may have been National Geographic) was
Jhonny -- quite evidently modeled on Johnny, but rearranged. (/jh/ is
not a standard sequence in any version of Malay I'm familiar with,
though it does show up in some other languages of that quarter of the
world.)

JH. (James Harbeck)

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