Re: reformed Welsh Spelling [to: Ray Brown]

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; Irish (in particular) has an impressive dialectical
range for such a small language, 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:)

 > 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 haven't really looked at it since, and it needs a lot of improvement. I really
created it just to get a glimpse of what a block of Irish written in Cyrillic
would look like.

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

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]...

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Stephen Mulraney                      ataltane@ataltane.net
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