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Son of dZ
- To: Sessiwn Kemres <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
- Subject: Son of dZ
- From: Andrew Smith <[email protected]>
- Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:09:37 +1200 (NZST)
- Reply-To: Andrew Smith <[email protected]>
I have finally got around to looking at _An Introduction to the Celtic
Languages_ (1995) and reading the section on orthography. To recap
Brithenig has a voiced final fricative which needs to be distinguished
from -g, the voiced velar stop when final. What I've read suggests that
this would be -j (so ffelij). The evidence: Welsh has borrowed j for all
positions from English; one orthography for Breton, the Orthographie
universitaire, uses specifically it for word final -dZ#, and Manx has j
for /dj/ in an orthography created for that language by a native Welsh
speaker.
- andrew.
Andrew Smith, Intheologus [email protected]
"Break someone's leg."
- Old Orc Saying.