I just got a copy of Thurneysen's Old Irish Grammar, so work on Aelya has actually moved along some. I gave up after a couple weeks of trying to flesh out...
Aidan Grey
urso@...
Feb 26, 2000 10:04 am
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... A venerable text indeed! ... I'll try! I'm really interested to see how this turns out BTW. ... [snip] ... I assume that you mean the sound [v], rather...
Geoff Eddy
geoff@...
Feb 26, 2000 11:50 pm
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... From: Claude Heyman To: Celtic Conlang List Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2000 5:34 PM Subject: Suggestions? Hi! I was just wondering if you could help me! I...
Claude Heyman
cheyman@...
Feb 27, 2000 5:44 pm
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... Love to help, Claude! On one condition, though...you have to share the end result with us! Old Irish phonetic set would include: p,t,k,b,d,g,f,th,ch (as in...
Aidan Grey
urso@...
Feb 27, 2000 7:42 pm
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... well, I'll just have to keep you posted, then! I'm hoping to put it on the web, once i get a bit further along and have some translation examples. ... I...
Aidan Grey
urso@...
Feb 27, 2000 8:05 pm
100
So, here's some thoughts on a varity of o-stems. The idea is to go through, derive, and determine patterns for analogical levelling. Ultimately, I need to...
Aidan Grey
urso@...
Feb 28, 2000 8:48 am
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As something of a P-Celtic enthusiast, I learnt Cornish simply for the fun of it (I'm not Cornish- so no national sentiment- I'm actually about as English as...
yl-ruil
yl-ruil@...
Feb 28, 2000 3:56 pm
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Wonderful thanks, if this does blossom I have no problem sharing it with you. On the vocabulary...well I hate creating roots and I detest word generators so...
Claude Heyman
cheyman@...
Feb 28, 2000 3:56 pm
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Aidan Grey
urso@...
Feb 28, 2000 6:10 pm
104
Sure. That's one of my languages / cultures, bits and sprats of which show up on Conlang or Conculture every now and again. Most recently in the "Who's the...
Padraic Brown
pbrown@...
Feb 28, 2000 6:16 pm
105
... I await it eagerly! ... Well, we've all done it, so don't be afraid to :-) Best of luck! Geoff -- "Tu phuais dúichir u gcabhall a'll ac, seidh si tu...
Geoff Eddy
geoff@...
Feb 28, 2000 7:48 pm
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Aieee! I've just discovered that this didn't get sent! Hope it's not too late... ... Convincingly Irish nonsense, at that! ... Mmm... let me see. You need long...
Geoff Eddy
geoff@...
Feb 28, 2000 7:51 pm
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... Mm, English doesn't like it in general (contrast Scandinavian). Tolkien's solution for Sindarin was expedient, but a bit confusing. ... If it's unstressed,...
Geoff Eddy
geoff@...
Feb 28, 2000 8:09 pm
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... It depends... what indications of gender do you have at the moment? Obviously, I don't know much about Aelya phonology, but I'll offer some suggestions...
Geoff Eddy
geoff@...
Feb 28, 2000 10:51 pm
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... well, none. That's the point. Since masc nouns are so much more abundant, I'd thought of just using case forms from masc to determine lenition...
Aidan Grey
urso@...
Feb 29, 2000 1:12 am
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... Mur ras dheugh-why: mur ras "many thanks" dheugh-why "to you", dheugh being the conjugated form of dhe and why (cf W. chwi) is the emphatic pronoun. This...
yl-ruil
yl-ruil@...
Feb 29, 2000 4:07 pm
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... This is probably a good idea; gender can get you into several messes, or different sorts of mess. It tends to overcomplicate things, unless you're working...
Geoff Eddy
geoff@...
Feb 29, 2000 7:11 pm
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While I was in France I visited Naoned (Nantes) in Breizh, and while browsing through a bookshop I found a little book called "Expressions populaires...
yl-ruil
yl-ruil@...
Feb 29, 2000 7:26 pm
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... I think this would look very good in Brithenig, as the Comrow have the Blessed Isles in their mythology as well. Padraic....
Padraic Brown
pbrown@...
Feb 29, 2000 8:08 pm
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... With or without a difference in meaning? I thought SG only used grave for vowel length, and that acute was the sign of an Irish typeface. ... See...
John Cowan
jcowan@...
Feb 29, 2000 8:41 pm
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... I've read that some authorities prefer to use just the grave accent; but in general, the grave accent is used exclusively on <a i u> to denote long vowels,...
Geoff Eddy
geoff@...
Feb 29, 2000 10:06 pm
116
... Yes, I thought the same thing myself when I read it. Now that would be... Rhuifar a bunent. - andrew. -- Andrew Smith, Intheologus...
andrew
hobbit@...
Mar 1, 2000 4:29 am
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... The southern variety would be "Remar li muir". A curious extended form is used when someone makes like they're dying, but really aren't: "Poneor la...
Padraic Brown
pbrown@...
Mar 1, 2000 5:26 am
118
Just an administrivial note....sorry for everyone who had to answer my read receipts. Their wonderful as far as personal comm. goes but they are actually kind...
Claude Heyman
cheyman@...
Mar 1, 2000 7:25 pm
119
I was thinking, what if a P-Celtic *continental* language survived, a type of Gaulish. My hytpothesis is this: after the Franks invaded Armorica in the fifth...
yl-ruil
yl-ruil@...
Mar 2, 2000 9:36 pm
120
Sounds like a afscinating project! I especially look forward to some morphology and syntax, as Aelya is basically a similar project - creating a new (P/Q)...
Aidan Grey
urso@...
Mar 2, 2000 9:58 pm
121
... Unfortunately, as far as I know, *there*'s history has been set in such a way that P-Celtic langs are long extinct in Britain & Europe as well. Though I...
Padraic Brown
pbrown@...
Mar 2, 2000 10:34 pm
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... I'm not sure if I consider myself to be a power that am, but I see no reason why if Romance speakers take over the West British Coast we can't have P-Celts...
andrew
hobbit@...
Mar 3, 2000 10:21 am
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Here's more information on the Channel Island Celtic Language. First off, I have a problem of nomenclature: what do I call it? There are several possibilities:...
yl-ruil
yl-ruil@...
Mar 3, 2000 5:03 pm
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Hi! I was just wondering....PIE (Proto-Indo-European) did not have palatalization, so how did Proto-Celtic achieve this? What sequences triggered it? Also, how...
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