What Happened To Spanish's F?

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[NameExplain]

Yes. I wrote this entire video just to do that joke at the end.

[fabianr.]

Just in case, for people who don't know, in Spanish the "H" is never pronounced, no matter where is located in the word, it never does the English "h" sound. and also "LL" is not pronounced as a single L, the sound is completely different.

[bescriva]

2:58 The Spanish LL is not supposed to be pronounced like an L

[laserwolf]

"H" is a silent letter. Hearing it pronounced so much makes me sad inside.

[Austin_Schulz]

0:27 Romanian gets left out yet again lol

[LaggingGames]

there is no H *sound in this spot in Spanish, it's actually completely deleted at this point, the letter is silent. good video tho.

[Austin_Schulz]

"¿Donde está la F?"
"Se hue."

[GazilionPT]

It's not just F at the start of words. Although not so common, the same phenomenon also occurs with F in the middle of words:
"Savings" (EN) = "Aforro" (PT) = "Ahorro" (ES)
"Drowned" (EN) = "Afogado" (PT) = "Ahogado" (ES)

[OrtegaDani]

Very inconsistent video. I am sorry but it is very difficult to explain spanish history when you do not even know how it is pronounced. No sound is in “H” nowadays. It was sounding /h/ but this “dropped” very quickly. So, the video is teaching wrong facts 😅

[corbinhelt]

Dude, what the fuck? Why are you pronouncing the H?

[Random]

The C with a little thingy beneath (called a cedille/cedilhe/cedilha) means the C should be pronounced SS. So, hortiSSo, instead of hortiKo.

[jordandino]

🇫🇷: F
🇮🇹: F
🇵🇹: F

🇪🇸: H

🇫🇷🇮🇹🇵🇹: 😐

🇷🇴: Hello? ☹️

[aalmi]

Some corrections here. You need to get your Spanish pronunciations correct. I get that you’re a monolingual English speaker, but you have to make more of an effort to pronounce Spanish words correctly. Big point here, h is always silent in Spanish. Maybe that wasn’t that case hundreds of years ago, but it’s silent in Spanish now. Also, it’s not weird at all that Spanish h is silent since every other Romance language’s h letter is also silent like in French, Italian and so on. You just pretend the h isn’t there like in honda as you featured plus others like hola. You still need that h silent letter to differentiate words like hola and ola that are pronounced exactly the same, but mean totally different things. Hit up that Duolingo Spanish already. The green owl will appreciate it. 😂

[NBK]

British vs. American pronunciation of foreign words. He said, "Reh-NAY-sahns, " while I learned to say "REH-na-SAHNS."

[kittyprydekissme]

Sometimes, they couldn't decide whether to change the spelling or not and both versions survived, such as Fernando and Hernando.

[smittoria]

It's a simple sound change that had some specific conditions. The exception "fuego" for example is because the f is followed by a consonantal sound (/fwerte/), whcih blocked the loss

[chrisXlrr]

!! THE H IS SILENT !!!
It's better to think of the H as a sort of vestigial consonant like the "k" in "know"

[grantorino]

Spanish evolved very idiosyncratically among the Romance languages.

For one thing, _more than half of the words_ in it begin with A, C, D, E, or P!

[josecarrales]

Patrick....the "H' is silent. 😆 It's ok....I've heard many of your countrymen call it "HAY-CHE" and some dialects of English drop it all together in regular speech.

Your cool!

Additionally, my grandparents often called metal tools "fierros" 🔧 and railroads "ferrocarriles." As we live in South Texas, this may be left over from pre-Colonial Spanish fossilized in the dialect.

[Namse]

8:38
If youre going to use the full govt name of h 'voiceless glottal fricative' then use the full govt name of f too lol 'voiceless labiodental fricative'