Re: Back to conlanging

> Basque has sibilant harmony. Sibilants or affricates
> within the same word must be all apical _(t)s_, all
> laminal _(t)z_ or all palatal _(t)x_.  Thus Spanish
> _Francés_ is borrowed as _Frantses_ rather than
> **Frantzes.
See eg. txistu (flute) for a counterexample. Also sortzen (creating) and
other words... I have to admit that roots with mixtures of (t)z and (t)s
are not exactly common, but if Basque did have sibilant harmony it's no
longer an active process, in the dialects I know at least. Since I know
practically nothing of the French dialects, things could be different
there...

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