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Most languages, such as Latin, have no phoneme corresponding to Greek theta, so there there are several alternate ways of pronouncing it. Even in some Greek dialects it was fronted to /f/, but it can also be altered to the corresponding stops /t/ and /d/, or shifted back to /s/ and /z/ or /ʃ/(fishin') and /ʒ/ (vision). Although Spanish has such a phoneme it developed in a different context (usually written c or sometimes z, and even that is shifted back to s/z or ʃ/ʒ in some dialects) so Hispanic/Portuguese speakers will pronounce TH of Thalia /d/ or /t/ (voiced or unvoiced).