WH

>
>(BTW, I like it too, which is why, just for fun, I have almost fully
>integrated it into my phoneme inventory :) )
Meaning "you use it when speaking English" or "you use it in your conlang"?

I use it too (in English) altho hardly one of my teachers would have known
about it being still living.  My grandmother's Swedish dialect had a
distinction between /v/ < *w and /w/ from *hw.  Since /w/ occurred in other
initial clusters /h/ must have protected it from fricativizing, but then
disappeared.  I've not heard absolute initial /w/ from any of my dad's or
my own generation, but in clusters it lives on in those parts.


/BP

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  B.Philip Jonsson  <bpj@...> <melroch@...>

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