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To: Eleutheria5

Хороший. There most certainly is an H sound in Russian. It just has a little of that back-of-the-throat Hebrew sound like the ch in chai.


23 posted on 05/27/2024 1:26:27 PM PDT by Dr. Thorne (The Media is the Virus.)
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To: Dr. Thorne

That’s what they have in lieu of a flat H sound, which exists in Hebrew as distinct from the back-of-the-throat CH sound. Or sometimes they replace it with a G sound. But no H. They have it in Ukrainian, but sometimes it’s a flat H and sometimes it’s like the Arabic غ.


24 posted on 05/27/2024 2:00:32 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Dr. Thorne; Eleutheria5

Those are considered different sounds. Russians pronounce foreign and older words with “h” in them as “g”.

Remember cosmonaut German Titov. I wondered why a Soviet would be called “German,” but it was their version of “Herman”.


40 posted on 05/28/2024 7:55:26 AM PDT by x
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To: Dr. Thorne; Eleutheria5
Those are considered different sounds. Russians pronounce foreign and older words with “h” in them as “g”.

That was the way things were done in the past, so the Ukranian "Hohol'" became the Russian "Gogol'". It's different now. Russians trying to sell souvenirs to tourists are always yelling "Army Khat! Army Khat!"

42 posted on 05/28/2024 8:26:34 AM PDT by x
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