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.