Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

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

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Monday, June 20, 2005, 21:26
Quoting Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>:

> 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.
Persian, I believe. An Iranian girl I know insists on pronouncing 'ohm' as [o:hm]. Andreas

Replies

Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Joe <joe@...>