Re: Silent E
| From: | Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 5, 2001, 4:03 |
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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?
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> 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.
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