Does the Russian language have a guttural “cgh” sound?
Saturday, November 14th, 2009 at
7:18 am
I am in a the play The Fiddler on the Roof as a russian. One of my lines I am supposed to mock a girl named Chava (which in yiddish would be pronounced with the guttural sound as Cgha-va) by saying "Mazel tov Chava" with a Russian accent. I thought I would pronounce it with a "k" sound but I got chided for that. So how would I pronounce it? Does the Russian have a guttural "cgh" sound?
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Yes. The letter is what we would call an X. It’s pronounced like the Scottish "loch" as in Loch Ness; kind of a phlegmmy "k."
In Russian, that name would be pronounced ha-va.