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Jun 18, 2012 · There are three primary dialects of Irish: Munster, spoken in the southern part of the island (Counties Cork, Kerry, and Clare). Connacht, spoken in the western part of the island (primarily Counties Galway, Mayo, and Sligo).
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Nov 17, 2022 · The Three Irish Dialects. Connacht Irish – Canúint Chonnacht. The Connacht dialect is found in North Mayo, Conamara and na Oileáin Árann. Although there are several linguistic variations within Connacht Irish based on geography, “Connemara Irish” has come to be considered the most standardized form taught.
The Linguistic Atlas and Survey of Irish Dialects (LASID) created by Myles Dillon and Heinrich Wagner in the 1950s included valuable dialect information on Inis Meáin and on Inis Oírr but neglected Inis Mór. Indeed, there had been no dialect research conducted there since the late nineteenth-century work of Holger Pedersen and Franz Nikolaus ...
Jan 8, 2015 · Irish Linguistic Diversity. A few weeks back, Stan Carey responded to a “most attractive accent” survey which crowned Southern Ireland the most irresistible English. Anyone with a modest familiarity with Irish accents will recognize what’s odd about the survey’s map of sociolinguistic magnetism, which unequivocally treats Donegal as ...
The standard dialect survey of Irish is Heinrich Wagner’s comprehensive atlas (1958-1964); there are also many individual studies which document the language in the early twentieth century.
This Survey constitutes a highly detailed micro-dialectological study of spoken Irish in the Aran Islands, focusing on geographical and social variation linked to generations (older and younger age-groups), genders (male and female), and level of education.
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The aim is to provide an analysis Irish prosody, providing coverage of the four main dialects of Donegal, Mayo, Connemara and Kerry. The description will encompass intonation and rhythmic/temporal aspects and will also specify some of the voice quality correlates of intonational categories.
