Re: Silent E

Keith Gaughan scripsit:

> 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.
I think the main decision in rendering Irish using Cyrillic is to decide
whether to use Irish-style spelling rules (h's and eclipsis) or Welsh-style
(phonemic).  Assuming the latter, then the main problem would be the
lack of an /h/ letter for "sh" and "th".  The natural h-letter for
Irish-style spelling would either be the dot itself or CYRILLIC LETTER
PALOCHKA (looks like "I" but is really a diacritic; it is caseless).

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