> In order to avoid misunderstandings: The modern German distinction between
> /z/ and /s/ isn't related to the OHG/MHG distinctin between /s/ (|z|) and
> the [S]-like /s_a/ (|s|). What further complicates the matter is the former
> existence of a distinction of length.
>
> gry@s:
> j. 'mach' wust
OK thanks. As I said I was working from foggy memory.
So MHG had three s-sounds much as modern Basque?
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