Re: What could /s/+/h/ become?

R A Brown wrote:


> I agree entirely. The change [s] --> [h] is not exactly uncommon
> (ancient Greek, Persian, old Welsh inter_multa_alia, and its happening
> in certain environments in many Spanish dialects).
It happenes also in some Turkic languages (Bashkir, Yakut). In the latter it
is still an active phonetic law that disfugures many borrowings form
Russian, like _bahi\:ba_ < _spasibo_ 'thanx'.

-- Yitzik