No Proto-Celtic?

[Rick Mc Callister]

	As a non-linguist, I'll have to take your word on that but could
someone explain the seeming complexity of mutations wrought by Irish
numbers on following consonants. As I remember some numbers don't cause
mutation, and there are two types of mutations caused by other numbers

>        French liasion is abstractly similar to Celtic mutation, for both
>might be described as the phonemicization of originally phonetic processes
>occurring across boundaries.  I think there probably is a link, as other
>suspiciously Celtic-seeming things occur in French, such as excessive (to my
>mind) clefting.
>        But be that as it may, mutations are actually fairly common,
>according to my understanding,  in sub-standard dialects of Romance and
>Greek.  An examples from Tuscan appears in the Encyclopedia Brittanica
>(1973?) article on Celtic, and someone wrote a book on the subject a while
>back.
>
>Dr. David L. White

Rick Mc Callister
W-1634
Mississippi University for Women
Columbus MS 39701