Question:
Other than English, what language has the TH sound?
SN
2010-10-02 15:40:02 UTC
Other than English, what language has the TH sound?
Eight answers:
Lagom
2010-10-02 16:09:01 UTC
there are actually two th-sounds, one voiced (as in 'there') and one unvoiced (as in 'thin').



the languages that have the unvoiced th-sound (voiceless dental fricative) are:



-Albanian

-Arabic

-Amami

-Arapaho

-Asu

-Berta

-Burmese

-Cornish

-Emiliano-Romagnolo

-English

-Galician

-Greek

-Gweno

-Gwich’in

-Hän

-Harsusi

-Hlai

-Kabyle

-Kare

-Karuk

-Kickapo

-Kwama

-Leonese

-Lorediakarkar

-Massa

-Saanich

-Sardinian

-Shawnee

-Sioux

-Spanis-Castilian

-Swahili

-Tanacross

-Toda

-Turkmen

-Tutchone

-Southern

-Upland Yuman

-Hualapai

-Yavapai

-Welayta

-Welsh

-Western Neo-Aramaic



the languages that have the voiced th-sound (voiced dental fricative) are:



-Albanian

-AleutAtkan dialect

-Arabic

-Berta

-Catalan

-Danish

-Elfdalian

-English

-Fijian

-Greek

-Gwich’in

-Harsusi

-Hän

-Kabyle

-Occitan

-Portuguese

-Sioux

-Sardinian

-Spanish

-Swahili

-Tamil

-Tanacross

-Tutchone

-Welsh

-Western Neo-Aramaic

-Zapotec



so, there you have it :) hope it helped!
Emmanuel
2010-10-02 16:16:16 UTC
In Spanish the Letter (Z) is pronounced like TH but only people from Spain use this sound not the Latin Americans Spanish Speakers. Also people from Spain pronounce S and C as TH.
anonymous
2010-10-02 15:45:12 UTC
Some forms of the Spanish language (depends on the country) have the TH sound instead of the S sound.
Rachel
2010-10-02 15:53:37 UTC
Greek, Welsh, Arabic, Spanish, Danish, Icelandic, Swahili, Albanian ....



Although there's two TH sounds (the one in 'the' and the one in 'three') and some of these may not do both although I know Spanish (the one spoken in Spain, not Latin America) and Greek do have both



x
?
2010-10-02 15:45:12 UTC
Icelandic has Þ the letter thorn which sounds like the th in English.
Mitch
2010-10-02 15:44:24 UTC
TH as in "the" or as in "three"?

Modern Greek has both, reprsented by a different letter (δ and θ).



And French lacks these sounds btw
anonymous
2010-10-02 16:19:57 UTC
Swahili and Arabic. ث = th in Arabic.
anonymous
2010-10-02 15:41:04 UTC
French.


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