Hungarian sibilants (was: /S/ in old and middle High German)
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 25, 2004, 19:03 |
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On Thursday, November 25, 2004, at 05:19 , John Cowan wrote:
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>>> --hence the Hungarian values of _s_ and _sz_!
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>> I'm not familiar with the Hungarian values.
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> |s| is /S/, whereas |sz| is /s/. Similarly, |z| is /ts/ and |zs| is /Z/.
No.
|s| is /S/, whereas |sz| is /s/ is correct, but |z| is /z/ and |c| is /ts/
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This then makes sense of |zs| = /Z/ and |cs| = /tS/.
Ray
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