Re: reformed Welsh Spelling - comments?

I realise the temptation. Welsh sounds so beautiful but looks awful. Too many
f's (I hate f) and y's. But you can blame English typesetters for that. I'd
like to see [dd] replaced by [dh], [ff] replaced by [f] and [f] by [v]. Also
the grapheme [y] does duty for several sounds. That could certainly do with a
cleanup.
Mike
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Robert Jung 
  To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU 
  Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 3:09 AM
  Subject: reformed Welsh Spelling - comments?


 The following is a document called 'Reformed Welsh Spelling' that I just
developed. As I find Welsh spelling a bit difficult and puzzling, I decided to
make it phonemic.

  Reformed Welsh Spelling

  old spelling=new spelling

  a=short a, long aa
  ae/ai=ai
  au=au
  b=b
  c=k
  ch=x
  d=d
  dd=dd
  e[short]=e
  e[long]/ei/ey=ei
  eu=eu
  ew=ew
  f=v
  ff/ph=f
  g=g
  gw=/g/ g, /gw/ gw
  h=h
  i=short i, long ii
  iw=iw
  j=dj
  l=l
  ll=ll
  m=m
  mh=mh
  n=n
  ngh=ngh
  nh=nh
  o=short o, long oo
  oe/oi/oy=oi
  ow=ow
  p=p
  r=r
  rh=rh
  s=s
  si[before a/e/o]=c
  t=t
  th=th
  ts=tc
  u/y[clear]=short u, long uu (pronunciation depends on region)
  uw=uw
  w=/V/ û, /u/ ûû, /w/ w
  wl=wl
  wn=wn
  wr=wr
  wy=wi /wi/ (rising), ui /uj/ (falling)
  y=/@/
 *Regular stress falls on the next-to-last syllable; irregular stress is marked
with an acute accent.
 **Vowel combinations ia, ie, io are pronounced /ja/, /je/, and /jo/, unless
the first i is marked with an umlaut, thus ïa, ïe, ïo, and the combination
is /i/ + /a e o/.

  --Robert http://www.kellang.friendpages.com


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