Re: Silent E

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.
> --
> Keith Gaughan                         In the land of the blind, the
> kmgaughan@eircom.net                    one-eyed man is a heretic
> http://www.geocities.com/keithgaughan/ [Temporarily]
>
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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?


-Stephen (Steg)
 "mmm... apple pah...."

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