--- In conlang@y..., Marcus Smith <smithma@U...> wrote:
> We can add the American Indian language Pima to that: it has /v/ but
not
> /f/. The reason in this case is hisotrical. Originally the /v/ was
/w/,
> but recently (last couple hundred years perhaps?) there was a change
/w/
> -> /v/ unless adjacent to a bilabial segment (/u/, /o/, /p/).
Phonetic [f]
> appears word finally or in clusters with /h/, where devoicing
regularly
> occurs.
Has anybody mentioned Finnish? It has /v/ without /f/ and /s/ without
/z/.
-- Christian Thalmann
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