Re: Hungarian < Latin: phonetic rules?

>Yes, I agree, they didn't come strainght from Latin.
>I noted some recorrent shifts, like break of clusters C+R, C+L

Initial consonantic clusters were exotic/unknown in older Hungarian.
Therefore the occurrence of "auxiliary" vowels.

>S>Z>ZS, suffixation.

In Hungarian spelling -zs- has no other significance than rendering
the sound [Ê'], i.e., ž Ž, ж Ж. (And -sz- [s].)

OTOH, there is a tendenc in Hungarian to rhotacize -l- when followed
by various consonants (this is why *ælÊ'e:bæt becomes *ærÊ'e:bæt,
i.e. written Erzsébet). And János [ya:noS] must be the Slavic Janoš &
Janusz.

George