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		hetman on Jan 15, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zhou Youguang, creator of the Pinyin writing syste... Definitely not. Russian has no aspirated consonants at all, nor would they pronounce them in the Latin alphabet. In fact a Russian would pronounce the roman "T" exactly the same way a Mandarin speaker would pronounce the pinyin "D" so I don't think there's much credence to your instructor's story.

singhblom on Jan 15, 2017 [–]

There was Russian influence, but maybe not for all the letters. Pinyin 'q' is based on Russian 'ч' if I recall correctly.

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