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Re: Indo-European question

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 19, 2001, 23:14
David Peterson wrote:
> No, the *letter* /z/ was supposed to be pronounced [s], not [z]. There > is no [z] sound in Spanish.
No phoneme /z/, but there is a phone [z] in many dialects as an allophone of /s/ before voiced consonants, e.g., _mismo_ = /mismo/ = [mizmo] -- Cenedl heb iaith, cenedl heb galon A nation without a language is a nation without a heart - Welsh proverb ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42