Re: CHAT: A sample of my newborn conlang
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 29, 2002, 19:35 |
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Danny Wier wrote:
> A sideline about Celtic written Cyrillic: When I first joined this list in 1997,
> someone from Bulgaria said that he used Cyrillic to transliterate Irish Gaelic
> for personal study.
Ivan Derzhanski. I also invented the idea the first time I opened
an Irish grammar, which had to be around 1969.
> The funny sounds like "th", "dd', "ll" and "rh" have no Cyrillic
> counterparts, however, unless you assign archaic Russian _fita_ (analogous to
> Greek theta) to "th" and use doubled consonants for the rest.
IIRC there is some non-Slavic language with /T/ and /D/, but I
forget what they use.
--
John Cowan <jcowan@...> http://www.reutershealth.com
I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_
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