hat are the guidlines for creating Inter Celtic?

he first goal in creating Inter Celtic is to find the maximum possible commonality among the six Celtic languages. If a feature (a word, grammatical structure or, point of syntax) can be found in at least four of the languages AND ALSO be found on BOTH sides of the Brythonic/Goidelic devide, then, that feature can be included into Inter Celtic.

n example:

The Inter Celtic word for complain is; acoin

In Modern Irish there is the word 'acaointeach', complaining

It is also related to the word 'caoin' to weep In early Irish the word was 'accaine'

Forms of this word are easily found in Gaelic and Manx almost unchanged. That gives us examples from three languages. But we need examples from at least four, if the word can be accepted, AND we will need to find this word on the other side of the P/Q devide In this case meaning Welsh Cornish or, Breton.

Happily for us Welsh has the word 'achwyn', 'To complain'

ow that we see that we can use this word we have to find the common features it has so that we can spell it in Celltiecc (Inter Celtic).

It most often appears as a word of two syllables. It's second letter is usually 'c' not 'ch'. It always ends in 'n' and begins with an unstressed 'a'. That leaves us with the question; what to do about the vowel combination in the second syllable. Should we use 'ai 'aoi' or, 'wy'? This problem is solved for us by the fact that the closest sound available in Celltiecc is 'oi'.

And so the word is taken into Celltiecc as; 'acoin'

second but equally important feature in creating Inter Celtic is regularity and simplicity. Anything that is being considered for inclusion in the language, should be simple, straightforward, easily and quickly learned and without any exceptions to it's rule. So far this has resulted in the following;

The spelling of Celltiecc is almost completely regular. Each letter stands for one sound.

There is no gender of nouns.

There is one form of the definite article for all cases, plural and singular.(yn)

There is only one form of the plural. (-iuvv)

There is a regular system for forming prepositional pronouns. If you know the preposition, then you can easily deduce all forms of the prepositional pronoun.

Verbs are completely regular

the same syllable is always stressed even when suffixes or prefixes have been added to the word.