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Re: A new commitee language

From:Danny Wier <dawier@...>
Date:Monday, March 24, 2003, 23:09
From: "Eamon Graham"

> Danny Wier wrote:
> > Since Arabic has no /p/, and IE /p/ was lost in Celtic... > > How come I never thought of that?!? You're a genius... that would > definately be cool...
I just have an obsession with phonetic/phonemic inventories. Seriously, Arabic script would be GREAT for a Celtic language, only not as good for Gaelic, unless you want to use the vowel markers to indicate slender and broad consonants, or some other diacritic. The phonology of Andalusian-Moroccan Celtiberian, therefore, with lenition and nasalization: b > w > m t > th > d d > dh > n k > x > g (written as jeem) g > gh > ng (written as noon-jeem) s > h f > zero > w m > w n, l, r > no change y of course is lost in Celtic, so it exists in loanwords and as a vowel. The others are loans from Ibero-Romance, Arabic and Tamazight. I think I covered most of it, but is this too much like Irish?