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Word celtic font9/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Many modern Gaelic typefaces include Gaelic letterforms for the letters j, k, q, v, w, x, y, and z, and typically provide support for at least the vowels of the other Celtic languages. Lower-case i is drawn without a dot (though it is not the Turkish dotless ı), and the letters d, f, g, and t have insular shapes. Gaelic typefaces also often include insular forms of the letters s and r, and some of them contain a number of ligatures used in earlier Gaelic typography and deriving from the manuscript tradition. Characteristicsīesides the 26 letters of the Latin alphabet, Gaelic typefaces must include all vowels with acute accents (Áá Éé Íí Óó Úú) as well as a set of consonants with dot above (Ḃḃ Ċċ Ḋḋ Ḟḟ Ġġ Ṁṁ Ṗṗ Ṡṡ Ṫṫ), and the Tironian sign et “⁊”, used for agus ‘and’ in Irish. In Ireland the term cló Gaelach is used in opposition to the term cló Rómhánach ‘Roman type’. The terms Gaelic type, Gaelic script, and Irish character translate the Irish phrase cló Gaelach (pronounced ). ![]()
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