Raymond A. Brown scripsit:
> The Irish & Scots Gaelic orthography is based on different principals; once
> one has learnt how to interpret the way palatalization & non-palatalization
> works and how to spot the difference between 'aspirated' and non-aspirated
> consonanants, the thing becomes a lot more regualar - but you have to
> understand the code first.
I find that straightforward, it's the vowel digraphs and trigraphs
that give *me* a pain ... grumble, grumble ....
[almost as bad as English]
[Irish otta be written in Cyrillic alphabet anyhow]
> Manx also has its own orthography dating back again IIRC to the 17th cent.
"Irish Gaelic pronounced like Scots Gaelic and written like English."
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