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    Question #63139. satguru asks:

    Apart from Icelandic, does any other language use the letters eth and thorn for soft and hard 'th' sounds? I may also have seen it once in Turkish but maybe mistaken?




    wdwfla

    It is used to write Old English, Middle English, Old Norse, Late Norse, Sami, and Modern Icelandic. Faeroese, also use the eth.

    Mar 05 06, 5:06 PM
    Baloo55th

    Definitely not in Turkish. That is all 'normal' letters, with additional dots and curly bits for some sounds. For those that mightn't know, Icelandic has Þ and þ (thorn) for the 'th' as in think, and Đ and đ (eth) for the 'th' as in though. The letter looking like eth also occurs in Vietnamese but I'm not sure how it's pronounced. (Icelandic also has the letter Æ and æ (ash) which is a short 'a' sound and also used to be used in Old English and is in some Scandinavian languages. The æ in encyclopædia is different, coming from Latin and sounding like e.)

    Mar 06 06, 11:15 AM
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