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Re: Consonant harmony (and intro)

From:Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...>
Date:Monday, July 18, 2005, 15:14
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.
I don't think mutation or lenition in any of the Insular Celtic languages could be considered consonant harmony as they occur on word/morpheme boundaries and are triggered by consonants that used to exist but have since been lost. K.