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Re: Silent E

From:Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...>
Date:Monday, October 8, 2001, 22:46
Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...> wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Oct 2001 08:32:14 +0100 Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...> > writes: > > Russian and Gaelic: two languages with palatalised consonants. > > Russian has it easy -- it has it's own alphabet that's suited to > > writing stuff in it with. Gaelic, on the other hand, has to make do > > with an alphabet completely unsuited to it. Instead it uses a kludge > > with vowels to get the right effect. Of course, this means that > > outsiders look at the language with bewilderment. > > So you're saying that Gaelic writing would be more user-friendly if it > was written in Cyrillic? :-) Would it work? Does Cyrillic have all the > necessary sounds for Gaelic?
As far as I know it does. Of course, the orthography would have to be completely different, but Cyrillic would probably map onto Gaelic far better than the Roman Alphabet does. K. -- Keith Gaughan In the land of the blind, the kmgaughan@eircom.net one-eyed man is a heretic http://www.geocities.com/keithgaughan/ [Temporarily]