Can you imagine playing Scrabble in Gaelic - you'd need 10x as many h's!
And a lot fewer of the rest! :-D
"Scottish Gaelic is written with just 18 letters each of which is named after a tree or shrub. The consonants all have more than one pronunciation depending on their position in a word and which vowels precede or follow them.
A a B b C c D d E e F f G g H h I i
L l M m N n O o P p R r S s T t U u
A grave accent on a vowel (Àà, Èè, Ìì, Òò and Ùù) indicates a longer version of the vowel, but these are not considered separate letters "
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"Scottish Gaelic is written with just 18 letters each of which is named after a tree or shrub.
I have never heard this story, can you tell us more?
I believe the reason it is these 18 letters is for the Latin alaphabet of that time frame that was used by the Irish monks to record the Celtic languages. Before that time it was not a writen language.
I have never heard this story, can you tell us more?
I believe the reason it is these 18 letters is for the Latin alaphabet of that time frame that was used by the Irish monks to record the Celtic languages. Before that time it was not a writen language.
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Originally Posted by MacBean
Oh come now Rex, that's impossible!
Can you imagine playing Scrabble in Gaelic - you'd need 10x as many h's!
Yes, Mark, but if you are playing with the same total number of tiles in Gaelic as you do in English, what happens to the 8 fewer in the Gaelic alphabet? Maybe they could all be aitches
Originally Posted by MacBean
Yes, Mark, but if you are playing with the same total number of tiles in Gaelic as you do in English, what happens to the 8 fewer in the Gaelic alphabet? Maybe they could all be aitches 
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