[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by StGeorge

Well, as it happens, thats where your wrong and the confusion sets in.

The Irish, or more to the point, Celts..do have their own language....like just about most nations in the world. But my point is that when these different cultures originally converged, who decided that the translation from the symbols/characters/letters to anothers had such a variance on the sound?

EG: There is no V in Irish, but when the original Irish symbol (probably from the Ogham Alphabet) was tanslated as a sound, why wasnt the English symbol for V used?

because they're just different I suppose, like when you translate Irish to English, If you literally translated every word it wouldn't make much sense eg.

Niamh is anim dom means Niamh is my name but word for word to English it means Niamh is name mine