Re: Latin <h>

Quoting John Cowan <cowan@...>:

> Muke Tever scripsit:
>
> > 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) e.g. if you had <reloj>
> > vs. ?<relós>.
>
> AFAIK there are no dialects that both do s > h and x > h.
According to an pdf on Andalucian dialects posted to the list a while ago
there are. They tend to have interesting rules preventing [s]>[h] when there's
an /x/, pronounced [h], nearby.

                                                      Andreas