Re: A new phonemic distinction in Gzarondan

Quoting "Adrian Morgan (aka Flesh-eating Dragon)" <dragon@...>:

> Alternatively, I could do away with /h/ (but how many natural
> languages don't have /h/ ?)
French, Greek and Russian come to mind; they don't have [h] at all. And then
you've got langs like Spanish, where [h] is found, but can very reasonably be
analyzed as allophones of /s/ and /x/, ridding us of an /h/ _phoneme_.
Moreover, some 'lects of Spanish lack [h] entirely.

I'm sure there are plenty more langs in both categories.

                                                               Andreas

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