| From: | Isaac A. Penzev <isaacp@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 10, 2003, 10:20 |
KetebbeTristan:> Japanese (and I think Spanish?) has done /h/ > /f/ (hence ha hi fu he > ho). This seems to be an especially logical change around rounded vowels > (so presumably it happened before Japanese /u/ unrounded).Alas, it was vice versa: /p/ > /f/ (which is not [f] but a [p\]) > /h/... Yitzik ~~~~~~~~~~~~~