You could write it "c'h", thus confu...

2009-08-08T15:12:22.297-04:00

You could write it "c'h", thus confusing the hell out of the Bretons.

Exactly right. Here's what Peter Wynn Thomas h...

2009-07-16T13:05:32.909-04:00

Exactly right. Here's what Peter Wynn Thomas has to say about it in his Gramadeg y Gymraeg (Cardiff, 1996), p. 684.

My translation:

In informal styles, and especially in the spoken language, /tʃ/ (i.e. "tsi" in the orthography), can mutate to:

i) /dʒ/ ("j") under the conditions of soft mutation, e.g.:

"tsiocled" > "ei jocled"
"tsips" > "dy jips".

ii) /nhj/ under the conditions of nasal mutation, e.g.:

"tsiocled" > "fy nhiocled"
"tsips" > /ən'hjips/.

iii) /θj/ under the conditions of spirant mutation, e.g.:

"tsiocled" > "ei thiocled"
"tsips" > /i'θjips/

Soft mutation of /tʃ/ is common in informal speech in all parts of the country, and it is often represented in informal writing. But only in some northern dialects does spirant or nasal mutation affect it.

2009-07-16T12:59:28.592-04:00

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