Re: Question: Orthographic systems of celtic languages
| From: | Sally Caves <scaves@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 28, 1999, 1:13 |
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Do you mean modern Welsh? In modern Welsh the double d is the
voiced interdental fricative, yes.
taliesin the storyteller wrote:
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> As asked before (Subject: Orthographies), does anyone have a link to, or
> can describe, the orthographies of various celtic languages? For
> instance: as far as I can understand how to pronounce Welsh, in
> "newydd", the <dd> marks the voiced (inter)dental fricative (eth) and
> the <ew> is a diphthong. Not that Welsh has a weird orthography as
> opposed to, say Irish :)
>
> tal.
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