From cowan@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM Sat Mar 6 22:52:41 2010 Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1993 18:56:15 -0400 From: John Cowan Subject: Re: Irish orthography Marnen to the common folk" at Jul 26, 93 05:38:51 pm X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Message-ID: la marnen. cusku di'e > : Besides, > : what about the P-Celts? Q-Celtic only exists in Britain as a result of > : a westward movement across the Irish Sea. > I seem to have missed something here -- what are P- and Q-Celts? P-Celtic is Brythonic Celtic: Welsh and Breton. Q-Celtic is Irish, Scots Gaelic, and Manx. The names arise because in many cognates, Welsh has "p" where Irish has "c": an obvious example is "mac" vs. "[m]ap", son. > : Anyhow, the obvious orthography for Irish will always be the Cyrillic > : alphabet. > Is this because Cyrillic has full sets of "slender" and "broad" vowels, so we > wouldn't need abominations like iui and (my personal favorite) ao? Correct. -- John Cowan cowan@snark.thyrsus.com ...!uunet!lock60!snark!cowan e'osai ko sarji la lojban.