Tulwar ... or talwar

Emanuel · 29th December 2007, 02:03 AM

Hi Fernando,

Maybe the sound is like "uh" (click on the speaker icon to hear the pronunciation) a sound that has no letter in English. I think it's the same with khukri, pronounced kuk-uh-ri maybe. If I were to spell the name of these swords in Romanian it would probably be tâluar or tâlvar, depending on whether the w is pronounced "W" or"V". I guess we could phonetically transliterate the sounds as pronounced in Hindi or Nepali, but simply tulwar seems so much easier and generally accepted.

All the best,
Emanuel

29th December 2007, 02:03 AM	#5
Emanuel Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 1,242	Hi Fernando, Maybe the sound is like "uh" (click on the speaker icon to hear the pronunciation) a sound that has no letter in English. I think it's the same with khukri, pronounced kuk-uh-ri maybe. If I were to spell the name of these swords in Romanian it would probably be tâluar or tâlvar, depending on whether the w is pronounced "W" or"V". I guess we could phonetically transliterate the sounds as pronounced in Hindi or Nepali, but simply tulwar seems so much easier and generally accepted. All the best, Emanuel