Question
In this language's orthography, the digraph ll (“el el”) represents a voiceless fricative, in contrast to the voiced approximant represented by a single l. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this Celtic language whose other double-letter digraphs include dd and ff. This language, known endonymically as Cymraeg, is commonly spoken in cities like Cardiff.
ANSWER: Welsh
[10h] Many dialects of Spanish underwent a type of this change called yeísmo (“yeh-EES-mow”), in which the ll digraph merged into the y digraph. This change involves a replacement of its core sound into a central consonant.
ANSWER: delateralization [accept word forms]
[10m] The ll digraph in this language often represents the voiceless alveolar lateral affricate, while it was once written as the broken L ligature. This is the only modern language that uses the letter “thorn.”
ANSWER: Icelandic [or íslenska]
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Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 83% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |