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

On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 12:43:54 +0000, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:

>>
>> 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?

It can also be a question of not *hearing* the aitches. Recalling what I
said some time ago about `Arafat and `Iraq, I don't think that
`ayn-dropping in European languages can be described in terms of "a
soundlaw that has come and gone".

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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