Hello Forum:
For the past two or three years, linguistic studies has been a
semi-obsessive hobby of mine. I have fallen in love with the
decyphering of the intricate complexities of all forms of language,
and most especially phonetics and phonology. My passion with
languages has sparked the creativeness in me to the extent that I
have
been striving to develope my own fictional language. In this
respect,
as I have recently discovered through the Internet and, most
influencially, from reading the timeless fantasy novels of J.R.R.
Tolkien - the godfather of inventing fictional/personal tongue of all
sorts.
In persuit of creating my personal language, I chose the Celtic and
Germanic languages as the models for its developement. I've been
fourtunate enough to study the elementaries of the Germanic languages
from the limited resources available to me. The Celtic languages, on
the other hand, have proven more difficult. I have many questions
regarding their development into each of the individual branches,
most
specifically Welsh and Irish Gaelic. I hope that someone can shed
some light on the subjects below, or at least point me in the right
direction to find the information I'm looking for. Any help will be
greatly appreaciated!
1. Where can I find in-depth information on the development of the
Celtic languages (in general) from PIE?
2. How did the Goidelic languages develop their broad/slender
consonant distinction? **This is of great interest to me!!!
3. How did the vowels and diphthongs develope from Common Celtic
through Common Brythonic to Old, Middle, and Modern Welsh?
4. Was it a dialectal variantion that caused Common Celtic R and L to
change to voiceless RH and LL in Welsh, or was their a specific
phonetic process that caused it?
5. Is there any resource material (available to the layperson) that
discusses (in detail) the phonology of all the Celtic languages (but
most specifically Irish and Welsh)??
Again, any help anyone can provide will be greatly appreaciated.
Thank you.
Daniel
d_rock@...
PS- By the way, my highest complements to all those that worked so
hard on developing these websites, especially to all the information
Mr. Babaev has provided for all those interested in language! Great
Job!