CHAT reformed Gaelic (was: reformed Welsh Spelling [to: Ray Brown])

On Thursday, December 4, 2003, at 11:32 PM, Stephen Mulraney wrote:

> Ray Brown wrote:
>
>
>> Reforming Gaelic spelling is interesting (tho I don't imagine the Irish
>> or
>> Scots would go along with any of our proposals).
>
> Interesting, but difficult;
I agree - and being difficult makes it more interesting in my book.
Tinkering
around with a system that's not far off phonemic is IMO rather trivial &
boring.

> Irish (in particular) has an impressive dialectical
> range for such a small language,
I know.

> and what you said about Welsh orthography, that
> it's independent of regionalisms, holds for Irish too. Anyway, to
> paraphrase your
> comment about the Welsh letter |w|, hell will freeze over before you
> persuade the
> Goidelics to abandon their use of |aidheagh| as a vowel. Some of usrather
> like it:)
Quite so.  IMO any reform of Gaelic spelling has to come from Gaelic
itself as,
indeed, it has done from time to time.  But a radically different
Romanization of
Gaelic might form the basis of a conlang    :)

> > It has been observed by
> > some that Cyrillic would be a more suitable alphabet for that Gaelic
> langs.
>
> Indeed. I made a mock-up over a year ago, which can be see at
> http://ataltane.net/conlangs/sampla-ga.pdf
I'll be visiting that site   :)

[snip]

> Also you can see an (even less carefully thought out) example of *Russian*
>  written
> in *Irish* orthography at the following location... :)
>
> http://www.livejournal.com/users/ataltane/21573.html
Now that's even more interesting   :)

> Although I massively prefer Russian's native orthography, I do like the
> idea of
> using |ao| for Russian yeru, since Irish sometimes employs |ao| for a
> sound
> something like [1] or [M]...
Yep  :)

BTW I do disagree with JRRT over Gaelic - I find it one of the more
pleasant
sounding languages.

Ray
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