andrew <hobbit@...> writes:
> Hmmm. That makes the most likely alternatives are Kernu or Breathanach.
> It looks more like Q-Celtic influenced Breathanach to me. This is a
> trick question because Geoff Eddy is active on Celticonlang, but not on
> Conlang.
Correct! It is Breathanach, by Geoff Eddy.
> One pedantic point: I understand that in Teonaht the digraph [ht] is a
> dental fricative so it may be more accurately rendered as
> [Tiunata/Tiunasa], unless Sally Caves' rules of pronunciation have
> changed. :)
You are right! I was misguided by the spelling: for some reason, the
pronuncuation [teonaxt] is floating around in my mind.
daniel andreasson <daniel.andreasson@...> writes:
> I thought it might be Breathanach, but I thought there
> was a {t} missing ( > paratanaka ), and I had *no* idea
> that it was Geoff Eddy who invented Breathanach. That was
> a tricky one, Jörg! :)
What concerns the missing <t>: if I understood the Breathanach spelling
rules correctly, the name is pronounced [brahanax], hence Paraanaka.
Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> writes:
> Slightly puzzled - Why is the /E/ in /dZEf/ rendered as /u/ in _Supu_ while
> the /E/ in /Edi/ rendered as /i/ in _Iti?
>
> Or is 'Geoff' pronounced differently on each side of the Atlantic?
Well, I thought that "Geoff" was pronounced [dZOf], but I might be
misled.
Jörg.