Re: Allophones Question

Tristan scripsit:

> I understand it was pronounced [dz], hence German <z>=/ts/.
We are told that the pronunciation of zeta was a combination of the
pronunciations of delta (then [d]) and sigma [s].  What we don't know
is what that meant.  Was it [sd] or [ds] or [dz] or [zd] or even just [z],
where "combination" means at the featural level?  Certainly later it
became, and remains, [z] in Greek.  At some stage it became [z] in
Latin too, although all the Romance languages (I think) have since
devoiced it.

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