Re: Consonant harmony (and intro)

--- Joe <joe@...> wrote:

> Andrew Patterson wrote:
>
> >Welsh, soft and hard mutation. Don't ask me to
> explain, though I don't
> >speak it 'cos I'm from South Wales.
> >
> >
> >
>
> Actually, Welsh doesn't have a hard mutation.  It
> has a soft, an
> aspirated, and a nasal mutation.  And I'm not sure
> you could call it
> consonant harmony, since it's grammatical, not
> phonetic.
it has some traces of "hard" mutation, in Adjectives
Degrees

          Equitive    Comparative   Superlative
caredig > carediced   caredicach    caredica(f)
tlawd   > tloted      tlotach       tlota(f)
gwlyb   > gwlyped     gwlypach      gwlypa(f)

And I think is some verbs in certain forms the same
sort of thing happens (g > c, d > t, b > p)

~Elliott



		
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