Re: Glottal q, Spanish s

FFlores wrote:
> I think it goes back a lot in Spanish -- from Andalusian
> conquistadores.
I've read that some dialects of Andalusian have completely lost the /h/,
resulting in a phonemic split between /e/ and /E/, /o/ and /O/, and /A/
and /a/, so that one has things like /ErmAno/-/ErmAnO/ for "hermano/-s"

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