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  1. Irish Language - Orthography. Modern Irish typically uses the ISO basic Latin alphabet without the letters j,k,q,w,x,y,z, but with the addition of one diacritic sign, the acute accent ( á é í ó ú ), known in Irish as the síneadh fada "long mark", plural sínte fada. (The letter v has been naturalised into the language, although it is not ...

  2. Celtic languages - Irish, Welsh, Gaelic: The history of Irish may be divided into four periods: that of the ogham inscriptions, probably ad 300–500; Old Irish, 600–900; Middle Irish, 900–1200; and Modern Irish, 1200 to the present. This division is necessarily arbitrary, and archaizing tendencies confuse the situation, especially during the period 1200–1600, when a highly standardized ...

  3. Mar 8, 2024 · Appendix:Irish pronunciation. Appendix. : Irish pronunciation. Help:IPA/Irish. Shortcut: AP:pron:ga. The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Irish -language pronunciations in Wiktionary entries. See Irish phonology for detailed discussion of the phonology of Irish.

  4. Oct 23, 2019 · The initiator of this movement was the linguist Vojislav Nikčević supported by the Matica Crnogorska, the Montenegrin Homeland Society, and a group of Montenegrin writers. In 1993, Nikčević published a monograph using the Montenegrin language. In 1997, he edited an orthography with three additional letters (Schubert 2002).

  5. English orthography is the writing system used to represent spoken English, [1] [2] allowing readers to connect the graphemes to sound and to meaning. [3] It includes English's norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalisation, word breaks, emphasis, and punctuation . Like the orthography of most world languages, English orthography has a broad ...

  6. Jan 15, 2019 · hand, is an extremely deep orthography (one of the deepest alphabetic orthogra-. phies), meaning that the grapheme–phoneme correspondences are much less reli-. able and less consistent. Decoding ...

  7. 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. It gives specific information on the features of each dialect ...