Gaelic type

The Irish Book ( Irish Cló Gaelach ) is an insular uncials, a special form of the Latin script, as it is also the Gothic script. It was from about the 7th century used in manuscripts and since then slightly further developed. For the first time from 1571 to the mid-20th century it was used as a standard printed publication for texts in the Irish language. Today it is used almost exclusively for decorative purposes.

Lenited consonants are not as marked in modern Antiqua, by a trailing h, but by a diacritical point ( ponc séimhithe ), which emerged from the punctum Delens medieval manuscripts, ie: B C D F G ṁ P T instead of bh, ch, ie, fh, gh, mh, ph, sh, th, for example, instead of AMAC amach ( irish for " out "). This is facilitated by the absence of ascenders in the corresponding Irish Graphemzeichen. Furthermore, characteristic of the Irish writing is the frequent use of tironischen Et for shortened spelling of the word agus ( Irish for " and").

Not to be confused with the Irish writing of Ogham writing, which from the 4th to the 6th century was about verwendet'wurde in Ireland and other parts of the British Isles for inscriptions.

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