Only French has stored these etymological spellings, which now characterize /k/ or /ʃ/, /f/, /ʀ/ and /t/, respectively. The sound /h/ was usually lost, besides in Romanian. Some Romance languages re-developed /h/, however, notably Spanish (from /ʃ/, /ʒ/, or /ks/, and spelled as both “j” or delicate “g”, additionally syllable-final /s/) and Brazilian Portuguese (from […]
