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Re: Latin <h>

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Sunday, January 11, 2004, 0:20
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 07:00:15PM -0500, Doug Dee wrote:
> According to _Vulgar Latin_ by Jozsef Herman (Translated by Roger Wright), > the loss of the Latin /h/ phoneme "happened in the Republican period, that is, > even before the Empire".
Really! So Gaius Iulius didn't pronounce his <h>s? Interesting! -Mark

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