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Re: Silent E

From:Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...>
Date:Friday, October 5, 2001, 4:03
Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...> wrote:

> >On a side note, is Welsh a Celtic language, a Germanic language or like > >English? or what? Does Welsh or Celtic or Ire (or whatever you call that > >Irish language) use the silent e? > > Wels is a celtic language. I dont think it has the "silent e". I havent > really studied it though.
Welsh is beautifully orthographic. Once you spot little things like the way `f' is pronounced `v' and `ff' is pronounced `f', etc. it's almost phonetic. No silent letters as far as I remember. ___________________________________________________________________ Keith Gaughan, In the land of the kmgaughan@eircom.net blind, the one-eyed http://homepage.eircom.net/~kmgaughan/ man is a heretic.

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