Re: USAGE: OE pt was Re: USAGE:Yet another few questions about Welsh.
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 14, 2004, 9:08 |
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On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 07:59:08 +0100, Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> wrote:
> Only the Icelanders AFAIK now use eth and thorn.
Faroese(sp?) uses eth, though not thorn. (Apparently, it's not a
separate phoneme, though, and current spelling is at least partly
historical/etymological.)
I don't know any other modern languages besides those two, though,
that use either letter.
(Though there are languages that use d-bar, such as Croatian and
Vietnamese, but that's not edh; the lower-case letter looks different,
for starters, and the phonetic value is different, too.)
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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