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The orthography employs consonants as diacritics to represent two morphophonological alternations, called mutations, that affect word-initial consonants. The alternations are lenition (sometimes known as ‘aspiration’) and voicing/nasalization (called ‘eclipsis’).
Jan 5, 1997 · Roughly speaking we usually reckon there are three main dialect groupings. Munster in the south. (the most important of these dialects today is probably the Irish of the Corca Dhuibhne peninsula in Kerry/ Ciarraí, near Dingle/ Daingean Uí Chúise ), Connacht in the west.
Dialects. Presently there are three main dialects in the Irish language: Munster (An Mhumháin ), Connnacht (Connachta) also Ulster (Ulaidh) The Munster dialect is spoken mainly in Kerry (Ciarraí) & Muskerry (Múscraí) in the western part of Cork (Contae Chorcai) Connacht dialect is spoken mainly in Connamara (Conamara), the Aran Islands ...
The modern spoken form of Irish has three distinct dialects (Munster, Connacht, Ulster) and one superimposed official standard (An Caighdeán Oifigiúil).
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Jul 26, 2016 · While comparison of Irish spelling patterns with those in a similar corpus for English confirms a widespread belief that the orthography of Irish is more regular than that of English (the L1...
We begin here, after an overview of Irish phonology, by examining basic orthographic rules of Irish for both single letters and digraphs, and then consider phonological rules that systematically alter pronunciations from what the orthographic rules alone would lead one to expect.
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Aug 29, 2011 · The book offers a comprehensive overview of forms of modern Irish within a general linguistic framework. Starting with information on the sociolinguistics of modern Irish and on the overall sound system of the language, it then proceeds with a tripartite division of the present-day language into northern, western and southern Irish.
