Re: OT: German reputation

Muke Tever scripsit:

> I have also read that there are actually dialects of Spanish that retain
> [h] for |h|, but I can't verify that.
There are Ibero-Romance varieties (whether to call them dialects of
Castilian or separate languages is a question) which retain [h] for Latin
/f/, as in Castilian horno < FURNUS or hablar < FABULARE.  But there are
none which retain [h] for Latin /h/: that was lost at the proto-Romance
level, and its appearance in the standard spelling of Romance languages
is purely etymological.

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