Re: CHAT: A sample of my newborn conlang
| From: | Danny Wier <dawier@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 29, 2002, 18:54 |
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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. He found that the slender/broad system of consonant
palatization and velarization fit in well with Cyrillic's use of hard and soft
sign and hard and soft vowels to indicate palatization "soft" and
non-palatization "hard". Now Welsh doesn't have broad or slender consonants, and
Russian does. Still, the existence of the high central vowel in Russian (bI)
allows for at least that part of Welsh (specifically the Northern dialect) to be
carried over. 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.
It's something fun to play with, if not so practical.
~Danny~
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