Re: Latin <h>

Muke Tever wrote:
>
> Don't forget the dialects that use [h] for syllable-final /s/.
> In such a case you could actually have a new /h/ phoneme from the merger
> of /x/ > [h] and /s/ > [h] (there's a rule somewhere that a single phone
> cannot be an allophone of two different phonemes)
Are you sure about that? What about neutralization?

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