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

Andreas Johansson wrote:

>Quoting Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>:
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>>With final /h/--
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>>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.
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>>Beyond that, I can't say for sure. Caucasus? NA Indian? The problem is that
>>/-h/ is so easily elided and/or lost.
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>Persian, I believe.
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>An Iranian girl I know insists on pronouncing 'ohm' as [o:hm].
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A lot of Indo-Iranian langs.  Sanskrit, for sample (visarga, I believe).