Re: reformed Welsh Spelling - comments?
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 5, 2003, 20:15 |
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On Thursday, December 4, 2003, at 08:59 PM, Christian Thalmann wrote:
> --- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Ray Brown <ray.brown@F...> wrote:
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>>
>> Nope! Most of the time it's /V/.
>> In final syllable of polysyllabic words and in _some_ monosyllabic
>> words it's [1] in north Wales and [i] in the south.
>
> That *some* doesn't sound like an easily learned rule, as
> you advertized it earlier.
Try it - I don't find it too difficult.
In all words of one syllable |y| is pronounced as 'clear y', i.e.
[1} in the north or [i] in the South, with the exceptions of:
y, yr (the)
fy (my)
yn (in)
and in a few _recent_ borrowings from English, e.g. nyrs (nurse).
I stress _recent_ as earlier borrowing from English use the northen
English [u] rather than the southern [V], e.g.
jwg (jug), bws (bus).
Ray
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