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Re: Question: Orthographic systems of celtic languages

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Tuesday, September 28, 1999, 14:48
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." -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin