Re: USAGE: OE pt was Re: USAGE:Yet another few questions about Welsh.

On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 11:08, Philip Newton wrote:
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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.
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> Faroese(sp?) uses eth, though not thorn. (Apparently, it's not a
> separate phoneme, though, and current spelling is at least partly
> historical/etymological.)
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> I don't know any other modern languages besides those two, though,
> that use either letter.
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> (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.)
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> Cheers,
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> Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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*ahem*
I do believe icelandic uses eth.