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

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

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