Table of Contents

Contents: An Analysis of Particular Spelling Conventions in Breton - Analysing the particular spelling conventions of Breton - A note on some orthographic and phonetic transcriptions - Spelling and pronunciation - Transcribing final consonants - The digraph "I>zh" - The digraph "I>ss" - The consonant [w] - New lenition, provection and leniprovection - The graphemes "I>c'h" and "I/I" - The digraph "I>ae" - The vowel "I/I" before nasals - The trigraph "I>oue" vs. the digraph "I>oe" - The grapheme "I/I" for [j] and palatal "I>l, n" - The suffixes <-an, -in" - Doubling consonants - Final <-mp" - Diacritics - Elision and word boundaries - Miscellaneous leonisms - Mimetic conventions for Breton orthography - Appendix 1: The Mordiern letters - Appendix 2: Miscellaneous documents - Appendix 3: Attendance records of the Carhaix Talks.

About the Author

The Author: Iwan Wmffre is a lecturer in Irish and Celtic at the University of Ulster, Coleraine. He has previously taught at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and at the Catholic University of Lublin. His publications include Central Breton (1999), Late Cornish (1999), Language and Place-names in Wales (2003), The Place-names of Cardiganshire (2004).