Re: [tied] Dacian - /H/ -> seems not possible

From: tgpedersen
Message: 28137
Date: 2003-12-08

>
> The easiest interpretation is that the native population adopted
Latin as
> its first language (along with any Latin colonists immagrated into
teh
> area), and after a while everybody forgot how to pronounce /h/, as
any
> Latin speaker.
>

You seem to imply that "dropping one's aitches" was a still active
principle for Latin speakers at the time, not a soundlaw that had
come and gone?

Torsten