Re: Tendencies of Sound Changes?

Roger Mills wrote:

>John Vertical wrote:
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>>Roger Mills wrote:
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>>>Another change that's very common: s > h (>0)
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>>I'm not sure what you mean by that. x > h, for example, is much more
>>probable. Universal loss of s, to my knowledge, generally requires all
>>other
>>fricatives to have withered away already.
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>Ancient Greek shows *s > h/0 (at least in some environments), and IIRC some
>of the Persian langs. do too. Of course, IE had no other fricatives to
>lose... French lost *s in certain environments; Spanish may be in the
>process. But it's noteworthy that this is not a common change in IE
>languages.
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Are you sure?  Sanskrit does it, at least word finally.

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