We do not have any fricatized gutturals in English, but we have fricatized labials and dentals which we spell in very inconsistent ways. We sometimes fricatize the letter “p” by adding “h” to it.
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Thus Latin /k/ suffers voicing to OSp. /g/, which is then fricatized to [v] by about the thirteenth century (Lloyd 1987:327) (e.g. SĒCĀRE > segar "to reap" , where g => [y] , as in Modern Spanish).
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An isogloss, running hundreds of miles from Kaliningrad to the Rhine Valley, separates those varieties that fricatize these stops from those that do not.
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