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The way that Irish orthography relates to the pronunciation of Irish is not straightforward. This is in part because the orthography represents a fairly abstract level of Irish phonology, as will become clear below. Here we describe the basics of the orthography and how it connects to the phonology/phonetics of the Ulster (Donegal) dialect. 1.
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 ...
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Irish orthography is the set of conventions used to write Irish. A spelling reform in the mid-20th century led to An Caighdeán Oifigiúil, the modern standard written form used by the Government of Ireland, which regulates both spelling and grammar. [1] The reform removed inter-dialectal silent letters, simplified some letter sequences, and ...
Jan 5, 1997 · The intervocalic h (orthography: -th-) tends to disappear: bó'r = bóthar. The initial mutations are very similar to those of standard Irish, but sa (= "anns an" of Scottish Gaelic) does not lenite - it eclipses: sa mbaile instead of sa bhaile. Connacht dialects show a special form of verb used in direct relative clauses, ending in -s. This is ...
On the island, the language has three major dialects: Connacht, Munster and Ulster Irish. All three have distinctions in their speech and orthography. There is also An Caighdeán Oifigiúil, a standardised written form devised by a parliamentary commission in the 1950s.
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 orthographic depth continuum has been widely referenced, often without definition, but when its basis is specified, it is usually in terms of spelling consistency, as in the following definition from Frost, Katz and Bentin (1987:244): “In a shallow orthography… the phonemes of a spoken word are represented by the graphemes in a direct ...
