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 | | The voiced alveolar fricative /z/ (that was written 's' between vowels) merged with the voiceless /s/ (that was written 's', or 'ss' between vowels), now written 's' everywhere. |
 | | The voiced postalveolar fricative /Z/ (that was written 'j,ge,gi') merged with the voiceless /S/ (that was written 'x', as in ' Quixote '), and then /S/ evolved by the 17th century into the modern velar sound /x/, now written 'j,ge,gi'. |
 | | The European Castilian phoneme /T/ (interdental voiceless fricative, SAMPA phonetic scheme used) (as in c iento, ca z a) does not exist in American Castilian, it fell together with /s/ (as in s iento, ca s a). |
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