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- "Ubi habitas?"
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According to what I have read (I am not an expert though), the H was pronounced in the archaic times (obviously, otherwise they wouldn't have written it) but in the Republican era it was already unpronounced, except amongst the most cultured people, and probably only when they really wanted to pronounce in a, say, sophisticated way. As you probably know, the h is silent in all the Romance languages*, leaving aside digraphs.
*At least when it comes from a proper Latin H. For instance, it is my understanding that in some Occitan dialects the h- is aspirated like in English, but this h- comes generally from a Latin F-. FESTA > hèsta.