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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’).
Aug 29, 2011 · 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.
- Raymond Hickey
- August 29, 2011
1. The Irish language today 3 1.1. Irish and the government of Ireland 4 1.2. Irish and the European Union 5 1.3. Irish as an official language 5 1.4. The Irish language in modern Ireland 6 2. Who speaks Irish? 9 2.1. Census 2006 – Irish Language 11 2.2. Use of Irish and the Gaeltacht areas 13 2.3. Shifts in language use 15 2.4.
ModernIrishcapall[kapSL],then,becomeschapall[xapaij'horse'aftera 'his', remains unchanged after a 'her', andbecomes gcapall[gapsL] after a 'their'. Representingthesemutations unambiguouslywas a major challenge toIrish orthog-
The three major dialects of Irish are: Connemara (in the west of Ireland and around the city of Galway), Munster (spoken in Counties Kerry and Cork), and Ulster (spoken in County Donegal). Pimsleur's Irish teaches the Munster dialect. Irish Phase 1, Units 1-10 provide an introduction to Irish with 10 thirty-minute lessons .
2. The orthography of Irish was published in The Dialects of Irish on page 392.
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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.
