Re: Silent E

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.

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