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--- In westasianconlangs@yahoogroups.com, "Pavel Adamek" <pavel.adamek@i...> wrote: > > > Unfortunately, the Greek alphabet lacks cade. > > > > Not all versions; the Spartans used a form of sade called san for the > > extra sibilant in their subdialect of Doric dialect. This phoneme had > > developed from theta [t_h], so it may well have been [T]. > > So they used both san and sigma, and did not use theta? My bad. They used sigma /s/ [s] and theta /th/[t_h]. /th/ [t_h] later became [T] intervocalically, which Athenian scribes wrote as /s/. The Laconian /0/ [h] became a source of some mockery by sigma-pronouncing Greeks; therefore the Laconians irregularly replaced /s/ in words with [h]. > > Additional archaic letters for Bactrian: I wonder what Bactrian Greek sounded like. > &1015; GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SHO > &1016; GREEK SMALL LETTER SHO > whose shape is very similar to thorn > &222; Þ > &254; þ > > -----