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- Phonology: Ancient Irish had a complex system of phonetics, including a wide range of consonant and vowel changes known as lenition and nasalization, which were indicated in writing by adding dots or other diacritics above the letters.
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Irish shares a number of phonological characteristics with its nearest linguistic relatives, Scottish Gaelic and Manx, as well as with Hiberno-English, which it currently has the most language contact with.
The focus of the research is to examine phonological features of Irish English which may have been influenced by Irish and how these interact with speakers' levels of Irish fluency and to a lesser extent, to their gender.
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Language family: Indo-European, Celtic, Insular Celtic, Goidelic, Irish. Number of speakers: c. 2 million, including c. 210,000 who speak it regularly. Spoken in: mainly in Ireland and Northern Ireland, and also in the USA, Canada, UK and other countries. First written: 4th century AD.
The Irish language has been the main, but never the sole means of communication on the island of Ireland from the dawn of history until the beginning of the modern period when it began to be superseded by English. Over the more than 1.500 years of its written attestation, it has undergone
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Phonological characteristics of overall Irish English are given as well as categorisations into five major divisions of Hiberno-English: Ulster; West and South-West Ireland; local Dublin; new Dublin; and supraregional (southern) Ireland. Features of mainstream non-local Dublin English fall on a range between "local Dublin" and "new Dublin".
1.1 Principal features of Irish phonology The phonological word in the Irish language is defined by a lexical nucleus, with either nominal or verbal force, typically carrying strong initial stress. 1
Jul 4, 2014 · (Deutsch) The Sound Structure of Modern Irish contains a comprehensive description of the phonology of Irish. Based on the main forms of the language, it offers an analysis of the segments and the processes in its sound system.
