fascista

[elroy]

How have different Latin-script languages that borrowed the Italian fascista handled the <sc>?

Spanish kept the spelling and adapted the pronunciation: it's spelled fascista but pronounced /fas(θ)ista/.
German did the opposite: it kept the pronunciation and adapted the spelling: it's spelled Faschist and pronounced /faʃɪst/.
French kept the spelling and mimicked the original pronunciation: it's spelled fasciste and pronounced /faʃist/.

What about other languages?

 

[Olaszinhok]

fascista

In Standard Italian, fascista is pronounced faʃ.ʃista. The digraphs sc(i), gl(i) and gn are always geminated when occurring between vowels.

Gemination - Wikipedia

 

[apmoy70]

In Greek it's «φασίστας» [faˈs̠is̠t̠as̠] (masc. or fem.), we use the standard retracted [s̠].
Interestingly, while Cypriot Greek realises the allophone postalveolar fricative [ʃ] on some occasions, it does not in this case, it follows the Standard Modern Greek pattern

 

[Welsh_Sion]

Cymraeg/Welsh

ffasgiad (n.m.f.) /'fasgjad/
ffasgydd (n.m.) /'fasgᵻð/ (NW) /'fasgIð/ (SW)
ffasist (n.m.) /'faʃIst/

Welsh <ff> = /f/
Welsh <f> = /v/
Welsh <v> = Doesn't exist

 

[Penyafort]

Catalan calques Italian with a translation, not an adaptation.

feixista, pronounced [fəˈʃistə] (-ix- = sh)
The Catalan cognate of the Italian fascio 'sheaf' is feix [feʃ].

It sounds the same as faixista 'girdle maker/seller', and the pun was used by a humorous group decades ago for an antifascist song.

 

[AutumnOwl]

Swedish:
Fascism /faˈɧɪsm/ or /fa∫is´m light sj-sound)/
(yet another spelling variation for the Swedish sj- <ɧ> phoneme)
An older (1930 - 1940s?) spelling was faskism (pronunciation most likely as above, or possibly /fas.kism/), the Latin/Italian letter combination /sc/ are/were often transcribed as /sk/ into Swedish.

 

[se16teddy]

The OED pronunciation of “fasces” and “fascicle” (and some other cognates) is with s, not sh, and I am sure that I remember some scholars pronouncing “fascist” accordingly. I have not heard this pronunciation for many years now though.

 

[hui]

Finnish:
fasisti /'fasisti/

Older spelling (??–1960's?) and pronunciation: fascisti /'faʃisti/
"Original" pronunciation (1920's?–??): fascisti /'faʃʃisti/

 

[Rallino]

Turkish:

faşist - /fa'ʃist/

In Standard Italian, fascista is pronounced faʃ.ʃista. The digraphs sc(i), gl(i) and gn are always geminated when occurring between vowels.

Gemination - Wikipedia

Are there words where "sci" is not between vowels? For gli I can think of fargli, but for sci?

 

[elroy]

Are there words where "sci" is not between vowels?

Come on, stop monkeying around. 🐒

 

[Rallino]

Ah right, I didn't think about words where it's the first syllable. That's cheating though

 

[Olaszinhok]

Are there words where "sci" is not between vowels? For gli I can think of fargli, but for sci?

Sciame - swarm; sciatto - slovenly, shabby come to mind, but there are several words starting with sci

 

[symposium]

Turkish:

faşist - /fa'ʃist/



Are there words where "sci" is not between vowels? For gli I can think of fargli, but for sci?

"Conscio" (and "conscia/consci/conscie") = "aware".

 

[bearded]

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