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

Moin moin!

I know a natlang that uses a lot of initial <s-h>: Flemish (South Western
Dutch, spoken mainly in Belgium, but also in smaller areas in NW France
and SW Netherlands).
It's the equivalent of Dutch <sch> [sx], German <sch> [S], English <sh> [S]
and Scandinavian <sk>.


s-haop   [shQ:p]  sheep      Dutch schaap [sxa:p]
s-hriv'n [shri:vn]to write   Dutch schrijven ["sxrEiv@]

etc


In this case, <s-h> is a mutation itself from <sch> or <sk>.
In South West Dutch, all <g> [G] and <ch> [x] muteted to <h>, which sounds
more like the forcefull Arabic <H> than the European soft one, btw.

Ingmar






On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:37:05 +0200, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
wrote:

>Hi!
>
>For creating S11's sandhi, I need an idea to what /s/ + /h/ could
>mutate.  I'm somewhat stuck and don't seem to have good ideas.
>
>Any nat- or conlangs where something interesting happens when these
>two occur next to each other?  Or any innovative ideas?
>
>Bye,
>  Henrik

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