Re: Latin <h>
| From: | Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 11, 2004, 7:46 |
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Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...> writes:
>change, and /h/ reappeared in some Romance languages, to disappear
>again.=20
>In Spanish, it came from initial /f/ which turned into /h/ (except in
>front=
>=20
>of /w/, which explains Spanish <fuego> vs. <hablar> from Latin FOCUS
>and=20
>FABULARE, IIRC). This new /h/ disappeared again.
This loss happened sometime just after the Spanish colonized the
Philippines at least, because certain loanwords that were pronounced with
an initial H, but lost the H, are pronounced with that H in Philippines
Spanish (according to a paper on Chabacano, which i'd believe since the
author had about twenty scholarly sources to write it!).
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