Spanish has a lot of connected speech features, too. Especially with words that start with open vowel sounds, since most Spanish words also have open vowels at the end. Example, “Mijo/Mija” (term of endearment for your kid) comes from shortening “mi hijo/hija” (my son/my daughter). There are like 100 other examples I’m forgetting and my spelling is probably wrong since my Spanish is quite rusty but you get the idea