Are there only 2 ways in the world for pronouncing the word茶 ?

A few years ago a modern language teacher asked me whether there are
only 2 ways in Chinese to pronounce the word "tea" . He said that he found only 2
pronounciations, tea and cha (chai, chay), amongst the many languages that he had sampled.
He speculated that all tea must have originated in China and there must have
been only two ways of pronouncing the word tea .
I told him that cha is probably from mandarin whereas tea (tee, dare etc.)
is probably from Fukanese( 厦门, 福州 ), a tea exporting region. We speculated a bit about
whether countries that use the word cha got tea from China through a land
route whereas those that pronounce it as tea got it from a sea route originated
in Southern China.
A few weeks ago I came across a site that provides a list of simple words
in many different languages for travellers. I decided to check out a few to see
if my colleague's conjecture was correct. Here are the results:

Asturian (a language used in a certain region of Spain): te
Russian: chai
Hebrew: te
Swedish: te
Dutch: thee
Ukranian: Chay
Korean: Cha
Vietnamese: (pronouced as chai)
Bulgaria: chai
Japanese: (red tea= Koucha)
Malaysia: teh
Icelandic: te
Greek: Chai
Arabic: Shai
Hindi: Chaaya
Czeh: C^aj (pronouced as cha)
Finnish: tee
No, I am not finish yet, here is one that breaks the mode !
Polish: Herbata

Conclusion: everyone get their tea from China except the Poles, they
grow their own :-))

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• 在吴方言里"茶"字发类似 "zo" 的音. 仅供参考. - wq 20000527154405
  • 以前看过一则名人轶事，说苏东坡从某人发“茶”字不露齿而断定该人是吴人云云。据说，全国只有吴地发此音不露齿，不知是否属实？ - Last Hermit 20000528002037
    • 弗错！双唇突出成樱桃状发zo，自然不会露齿。 - 吴人 20000528004402
• "Chocolate soon followed tea and coffee to the 17th century's England..." - beimei 20000527163726
• tea is from China. 铁定事实。在一篇文章中读到，check 一词来自阿拉伯语。 - 联想 20000528074257
  • 有意思。准确说源于波斯语 shah 一词(王，象棋里的王)。 - h 20000528091619
    • 您是指"茶"字按发音是从波斯国来的吗？据说中国食品在作料的应用上于公元一世纪之交时开始丰富起来，是否茶做为其中的一项，也受中亚的影响？ - 瞬间返古 20000528103432
      • “check!”是国际象棋中的“将!”“h”认为从波斯文“shah”(国王)来。纯属联想，与“茶”无关 - intervenor 20000528104520
        • 懂了，迷迷糊糊，错把"将军" 当茶喝，怎么回事？！ - 谢谢 20000528114606

在吴方言里"茶"字发类似 "zo" 的音. 仅供参考.

以前看过一则名人轶事，说苏东坡从某人发“茶”字不露齿而断定该人是吴人云云。据说，全国只有吴地发此音不露齿，不知是否属实？

弗错！双唇突出成樱桃状发zo，自然不会露齿。

"Chocolate soon followed tea and coffee to the 17th century's England..."

tea is from China. 铁定事实。在一篇文章中读到，check 一词来自阿拉伯语。

有意思。准确说源于波斯语 shah 一词(王，象棋里的王)。

您是指"茶"字按发音是从波斯国来的吗？据说中国食品在作料的应用上于公元一世纪之交时开始丰富起来，是否茶做为其中的一项，也受中亚的影响？

“check!”是国际象棋中的“将!”“h”认为从波斯文“shah”(国王)来。纯属联想，与“茶”无关

懂了，迷迷糊糊，错把"将军" 当茶喝，怎么回事？！