Y CYMMRODOR, EMBODYING THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE HONOURABLE SOCIETY OF CYMMRODORION OF LONDON, ETC. EDITED BY THOMAS POWELL, M.A. (Oxon.) VOL. IV. PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY BY T. RICHARDS, 37, GREAT QUEEN STREET, W.C. 1881. Cymmrodor, 1881. CONTENTS OF VOL. IV. Observations on the Pronunciation of the Sassarese Dialect of Sardinia, and on various Points of Resemblance which it presents with the Celtic Languages. By H.I.H. PRINCE LOUISLUCIEN BONAPARTE Welsh Books Printed Abroad in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth 1 25 Welsh Anthropology. By F. W. RUDLER, F.G.S. 70 The Present and Future of Wales. By LEWIS MORRIS, M.A. 90 101 A Description of the Day of Judgment. With Translation and 106 The Celtic Languages in Relation to other Aryan Tongues. By the Rev. JOHN DAVIES, M.A. 139 152 Cydymaith y Cymro: neu Lawlyfr i'r Gymraeg. Gan y Notes of a Tour in Brittany. By S. PRIDEAUX TRE- The Rebecca Rioter: A Story of Killay Life. By E. A. The Folk-lore of Wales Notes and Queries Notices 152 154 155 - 159 161 A Celtic-Slavonic Suffix. By M. H. GAIDOZ A Cywydd to Sir Edward Stradling and Dr. John David Rhys upon the publication of the latter's Welsh Grammar - Who are the Welsh? By JAMES BONWICK, F.R.G.S. St. Paul in Britain, or the Origin of British as opposed to Papal Christianity. By the Rev. R. W. MORGAN Glossae Hibernicae e codicibus Wirziburgensi Carolisruhen- sibus aliis adjuvante Academiae Regiae Berolinensis liberalitate edidit Heinricus Zimmer The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher, and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog, and the Ancient Lords of Arwystli, Cedewen, and Meirionydd. By J. Y. W. LLOYD of Clochfaen, Esq., M.A., K.S.G. Vol. I Descriptive Account of the Incised Slate Tablet and other Remains lately discovered at Towyn. With plates. By J. PARK HARRISON, M.A., Oxon., etc. D Cymmrodor. JANUARY 1881. OBSERVATIONS ON THE PRONUNCIATION OF THE SASSARESE DIALECT OF SARDINIA, AND ON VARIOUS POINTS OF RESEMBLANCE WHICH IT PRESENTS WITH THE CELTIC LANGUAGES. BY H.I.H. PRINCE LOUIS LUCIEN BONAPARTE,1 HAVING made a prolonged study of the singular pronunciation of this important dialect, I venture to assert that it involves at least thirty-seven simple sounds. In the orthography followed by Canon Spano, in his version of St. Matthew's Gospel, these are represented by thirty-five characters, whether simple, as c, d, etc., or compound,-genuine digrams -such as ch, gli, gn, and the like. In entering on a discussion of these characters, I must say at the outset that they are, unfortunately, by no means in harmony with the number of the sounds; or even, in some instances, with their nature. Thus dd, by way of example, seems but ill-adapted to give us a clear idea either of the palatal d, unknown to classical Italian, or of the strong d, which is incorrectly spoken of as a double letter, in the same The following observations were printed in Italian in the year 1866, accompanying a version of St. Matthew's Gospel into Sassarese by the Rev. Canon Spano. The present translation has been made from a revised copy of the original issue, at the instance of the illustrious author, by Dr. Isambard Owen, VOL. IV. B |