
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!
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 "
President, Clan Buchanan Society International
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