Re: Breathanach orthography: a minor suggestion

[Padraic Brown <pbrown@nova.umuc.edu>]

Hi John,

Since Kernu uses accented vowels at times, I may make use of this
convention as well.  I'll just have to replace the right acutes with
graves.  Do you have any idea why there was a differentiation based on
vowel type in the first place? 

Padraic.

On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, John Cowan wrote:

> The old Romance conventions for the acute and grave accents used acute
> on close vowels and grave on open ones.  Therefore, a always took the
> grave, and i and u always took the acute.  Catalan still retains
> this system in full force,