Re: Ant: Re: Linguistics: Final /?/ and /h/

Roger Mills wrote at 2005-06-20 16:55:02 (-0400)
 > Bob Thornton wrote:
 > > Aren't there SAmerican dialects of Spanish with
 > > word-final /h/ where there once was /s/?
 > >
 > As others have said, yes, widespread, esp. in Caribbean and Argentina, also
 > in southern Spain. But at present I think we'd want to consider it
 > allophonic.
 >
[...]
 >
 > With final /h/--
 >
 > Again, several Phil/Indonesian langs., either as a distinct phoneme of
 > historical origin, or else due to sound shifts, like *s > h or *p >
 > h.
 >
 > Beyond that, I can't say for sure. Caucasus? NA Indian? The problem is that
 > /-h/ is so easily elided and/or lost.

And

Sanskrit (visarga - which, indeed, _only_ occurs finally)
At least some Mayan languages, I think.

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