[jmacusa]

A long time ago I had about half a year of German in high school. What I was quickly amazed at was how much of English comes from the Germanic language.

[Myrddin]

I found the rigor of German grammar in high school made my performance in English grammar better. I had to master both languages to have a precise understanding of the concepts. Scots Gaelic is adding new dimensions with lenition and insertion of vowel sounds e.g. Alba is pronounced Al-uh-ba. Similar to German inserts of "h" such that Stein is pronouced Shtein, Torsten->Torschten. Welsh includes contact mutation, nasal mutation and aspirant mutation. Each invokes a spelling change. The intent is to make the spoken language flow. Yn Penybont->Ym Mhenybont. The "m" sound flows. Yn Caerdydd-> yng Ngaerdydd...the nasal mutation flows. Lenition in Scots and Irish Gaelic lends a similar flow to spoken Gaelic.