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Re: Irish orthography Marnen to the common folk" at Jul 26, 93 05:38:51 pm

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.

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