Re: Romance Language Vowels (was: Frustrating Sound Descriptions)

[Padraic Brown <pbrown@POLARIS.UMUC.EDU>]

On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, John Cowan wrote:

> Padraic Brown wrote:
>
> > > Brithenig: [a], [e], [i], [o], [u] when stressed, [schwa], [E],
> > > [I], [O], [U], when not.  :-)
> >
> > Cute, John!  And in what chapter do H & V cover this fine language? ;-)
>
> Well, the order of lgs in my posting is the order of chapters in the
> book, 3-12.  Since they cover languages west-to-east, it should have
> been just before Spanish (Ch. 3); Ch. 1 is introductory and Ch. 2 about
> Latin itself.

Hm.  In that case, it _almost_ seems like the addition of Brithenig was an
afterthought on their part.

Padraic.

>
> --
> John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
>         You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
>         You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
>                 Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)
>