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Gaelic type (sometimes called Irish character, Irish type, or Gaelic script) is a family of insular typefaces devised for printing Irish. It was widely used from the 16th until the mid-20th centuries but is today rarely used. Sometimes all Gaelic typefaces are called ''Celtic'' or ''uncial'', though most Gaelic types are not uncials. The "Anglo-Saxon" types of the 17th century are included in this category because both the Anglo-Saxon types and the Gaelic/Irish types derive from the Insular manuscript hand. The terms ''Gaelic type, Gaelic script,'' and ''Irish character'' translate the Irish phrase ''cló Gaelach'' (pronounced (:kɫ̪oː ˈɡˠeːɫ̪əx)). In Ireland the term ''cló Gaelach'' is used in opposition to the term ''cló Rómhánach'' 'Roman type'. ==Characteristics== Besides the 26 letters of the Latin alphabet, Gaelic typefaces must include all vowels with acute accents as well as a set of consonants with dot above , and the , used for ''agus'' 'and' in Irish. Gaelic typefaces also often include insular forms of the letters and , and some of them contain a number of ligatures used in earlier Gaelic typography and deriving from the manuscript tradition. Lower-case is drawn without a dot (though it is not the ), and the letters , , and have insular shapes . Many modern Gaelic typefaces include Gaelic letterforms for the letters , , , , , , and , and typically provide support for at least the vowels of the other Celtic languages. They also distinguish between and (as did traditional typography), though some modern fonts replace the ampersand with the Tironian note ostensibly because both mean 'and'. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gaelic type」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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