Re[2]: RE : [tied] Re: North of the Somme

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 49807
Date: 2007-09-04

At 4:55:00 AM on Sunday, September 2, 2007, fournet.arnaud
wrote:

> When is this palatal versus non palatal system supposes to
> have appeared in IRish ?

As I understand it, the different qualities of the
consonants were triggered by the vowel that followed it in
Primitive (Ogam) Irish, so the distinction must have been
present in the earliest Old irish.

Brian

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