Re: THEORY: h huffnpuffery (was: RE: varia)

raccoon@ELKNET.NET wrote:
> Interesting... I wonder if there's any connection between that and the
> Japanese allophones of /h/ before front vowels: /ha hi hu he ho/ [ha Ci p\u
> he ho]. Only when the phoneme comes before a high vowel does it become
> anything other than [h].
Well, in the case of /hu/, originally, the h-series represented /p/.
The /p/ then evolved into /P/, the /P/ subsequently became /h/ except
before /u/

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