Re: Eastern cz sz

Hungarian <s> for /s^/
and <sz> for /s/
is interesting.
What happened?
Was <s> originally an apical /s/ that switched to /s^/

and bumped an original /s^/ to /s/
Or was the original situation similar to Basque <s>
and <z> which stand for apical and non-apical /s/?
--and one got bumped over to /s^/?


--- "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

> At 5:58:46 AM on Friday, February 1, 2008, afyangh
> wrote:
>
> > I have a question about cz sz in the eastern
> european
> > writings : When did that started ?
>
> I believe that the digraphs <cz> for [c^] and <sz>
> for [S]
> are specifically Polish. I've seen them in
> onomastic
> sources by the later 14th century.
>
> Brian
>
>
>

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