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Re: CHAT reformed Gaelic

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 9, 2003, 10:45
At 20:14 8.12.2003, Ray Brown wrote:

>'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.
Wow, that's exactly like Icelandic. Wonder if there once existed a North Atlantic Sprachbund? /BP 8^) -- B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melrochX@melroch.se (delete X) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~__ A h-ammen ledin i phith! \ \ __ ____ ____ _____________ ____ __ __ __ / / \ \/___ \\__ \ /___ _____/\ \\__ \\ \ \ \\ \ / / / / / / / \ / /Melroch\ \_/ // / / // / / / / /___/ /_ / /\ \ / /'Aestan ~\_ // /__/ // /__/ / /_________//_/ \_\/ /Eowine __ / / \___/\_\\___/\_\ Gwaedhvenn Angeliniel\ \______/ /a/ /_h-adar Merthol naun ~~~~~~~~~Kuinondil~~~\________/~~\__/~~~Noolendur~~~~~~ || Lenda lenda pellalenda pellatellenda kuivie aiya! || "A coincidence, as we say in Middle-Earth" (JRR Tolkien)