"Foreign" students at Hogwarts (Cho)

[L]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "L" <prittylina at y...> wrote:
> No, it doesn't; "Chang" is, phonetically // (or
> /aŋ/), although I believe that, in this case (as "cho" 
> is not a pinyin Chinese morpheme ["chou", yes]), it is actually 
> Zhang (Wades-Giles system), thus /a/. (At least, this 
> is how the Chinese version translates it [QiuZhang == Cho 
> Chang, HaliBote == Harry Potter], with which I much agree.) 

Oh, goodness. I can't believe that I didn't consider this happening. 
It should be /[c^][a~][ng]/ ... /[c^][a][ng]/... /[z¸][a][ng]/... 
Qiu-Zhang, Hali-Bote... 

> However, that 'g' is not indicating a consonant, but a 
> particular nasal ().

[ng] -- It's more or less an 'n' with a longer ending loop (almost a 
cross between 'n' and 'g' -- Latin's "eng" I believe?). 


Lina, whose mind (obviously) is not all here today