Beinn Bhreagh

From: radha_canada
Message: 34589
Date: 2004-10-11

I recently had the opportunity to visit the Bell Museum in Baddeck,
here in the province of Nova Scotia in Canada. There it was
mentioned that Alexander Graham Bell had named his home in Baddeck
as 'Beinn Bhreagh' which is Gaelic for 'beautiful mountain'. I was
under the impression that aspirate voiced consonants like 'bh'
and 'gh' are preserved only in modern Indic languages and have
disappeared from other modern Indo European languages. If the 'bh'
and 'gh' in 'Bhreagh' really represent the voiced aspirate sounds,
then Gaelic too, like Indic languages, has preserved these sounds
till modern times. That was a surprise to me.

Do any other modern languages (other than Indic) possess these voiced
aspirate sounds ?

Thanks and regards,
Radhakrishna Warrier