Re: C (was: Acadon (was: Lingwa de Planeta))

Quoting Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>:

> Hi!
>
> T. A. McLeay writes:
> >...
> > Any case, the actual usual suspect for English orthography being
> > different from German, is that the English orthography has always been a
> > separate tradition.
> >...
>
> When writing |k| in Germanic goes back to quite early times (say in
> Old Norse), to starting using the Latin alphabet at all, where is the
> branching in English tradition?
AFAIK, the writing of Scandinavian languages in the Latin alphabet began with
Christianization, which means from about the 10th century. Old English was
written in Latin letters well before that.

Medieval Swedish texts often have |c| for /k/,  and I've seen it in medieval and
early modern German text as well, eg. the 16th C motto _Gottes Macht ist myn
Cracht_.

                                              Andreas