Re: CHAT reformed Gaelic
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 9, 2003, 10:45 |
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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^)
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