Hi!
Tristan McLeay writes:
>...
> Hence the Hungarian <sz> is essentially the same thing as the German ß.
>
> I hope that's clear, or that someone can clarify --- it's a bit hard to
> discuss this sort of thing when you can't remember the actual nature of
> the sounds.
Probably apical s vs. laminal s. Apical tends to sound like /S/ for
speakes of languages with only laminal s.
It was discussed here a while ago, even with reference to Hungarian:
http://archives.conlang.info/bhau/julqae/dhaelchoelchoen.html
**Henrik