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Re: CHAT reformed Gaelic

From:Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 9, 2003, 6:03
On Sunday, December 7, 2003, at 10:57 PM, Stephen Mulraney wrote:

> Ray Brown wrote: >> On Thursday, December 4, 2003, at 11:32 PM, Stephen Mulraney wrote: > >>> Indeed. I made a mock-up over a year ago, which can be see at >>> http://ataltane.net/conlangs/sampla-ga.pdf >> >> I'll be visiting that site :) > > There's not much more there except for out of date and incomplete details > about semi-abandoned conlangs :).
Interesting, none the less.
> Also, I think so of the pages won't > display properly in Internet Explorer (don't ask...!)
No probs - I use Mozilla :) IE doesn't seem to like of my web-pages either.
>> [snip] >> >>> Also you can see an (even less carefully thought out) example of >>> *Russian* >>> written >>> in *Irish* orthography at the following location... :) >>> >>> http://www.livejournal.com/users/ataltane/21573.html >> > >> Now that's even more interesting :) > > It's quite a mess, to be honest; But I think it could be made > consistent with a little work :)
Yep - it's at least fun seeing the slender-to-slender & broad-to-broad rule being applied in Russian :)
>> BTW I do disagree with JRRT over Gaelic - I find it one of the more >> pleasant >> sounding languages. > > Me too. Of course, impressions of a language's pleasant-soundingness > often increase with exposure (as you become more familiar with the > phoneme inventory, the allophonic range of each phoneme, etc), but > I find Irish fantastically wonderful to listen to. My brief > acquaintance with(Scottish) Gaelic suggests that it's even more > attractive (I particularly like the pronunciation of |b d g| as > [p t k], and |p t k| as something like [hp ht xk] when non-initial.
'sright - and when they're [p_h] [t_h] and [k_h]. Scots Gaelic doesn't have voiced plosives only one set of unaspirated voiceless and another of aspirated voiceless with the aspiration being either before or after according to position.
> To my mind, it's a good example of what I might assume to be a much > too far-reaching rule (what, no [b d g] in the interiors of words, > ever?!), resulting in a very distinctive sound.
Yes, indeed. Ray =============================================== http://home.freeuk.com/ray.brown ray.brown@freeuk.com (home) raymond.brown@kingston-college.ac.uk (work) ===============================================

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