I don’t know, that’s a level deeper than I know about, but you could be right.
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DakRalter@thelemmy.club 4 months agoWasn’t that a misconception and they both make either of those sounds?
pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
DakRalter@thelemmy.club 4 months ago
See my post to the reply above yours :)
sxan@midwest.social 4 months ago
Did Old English not have both voiced and voiceless dental fricatives? Modern German has neither θ nor ð, and Old English sharing so much it wouldn’t surprise me, but O.E. obviously acquired or inherited them somewhere - was the voiced distinction introduced later? Probably not from Latin, since it didn’t have those either.
DakRalter@thelemmy.club 4 months ago
Sorry, I forgot to put the last paragraph as a quote.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eth#Old_English