Re: [tied] Re: Mercury and lead

Yes, CH is pronnounced <s^> in modern Portuguese (c^ in Old Portuguese)
X is pronnounced in Portuguese by many different ways:
<z> in hexagono (hexagon)
<ks> in fixo
<s^> in Alexandre (Alexander)
<s> in maximo (biggest)

Joao SL
Rio de Janeiro

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Subject: [tied] Re: Mercury and lead


> --- In cybalist@..., Omar Karamán <diogenes@...> wrote:
> >As to 16th century Spanish, this is what was told:
> At that time, x was pronounced as sh, and j as zh (the voiced
> equivalent). This is the same situation as in Portuguese today and in
> older French (I have no date for this), e.g. <chevaux>, pl. of
> <cheval> would be pronounced cheváush (sort of portuguese-like
> inflection, yes?).
> At a certain time sh -> kh, and zh -> kh, the present day
> pronounciation of the letter j. Since now both the letters j and x
> were pronounced the same, the letter x was generally replaced by j in
> Spanish orthography.
> Examples: The original Aztec pronounciation of Mexico (Aztec word) is
> Meshiko (forgot about vowel lengths and such). In Basque you see the
> spelling tx- for ch-, which makes sense as t-sh-. The state of Texas
> was originally spelled Tejas, pronounced Tezhas.
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