Re: CHAT reformed Gaelic

Ray Brown wrote:
> 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:
>> 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.
Mangled style-sheet, I think.

>>> [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  :)
>
Which was, of course, one of the main motivations for doing it :).

>> 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.
Ah - I didn't realise that. Whatever text I read neglected to mention the
values at the beginning of words. Very interesting! Thanks for the info.

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