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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.
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.
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Irish Orthography. The Irish language was a mode of the Goidelac branch of Celtic language, it was known also as ‘ Q-Celtic. ‘ It was closely related to Manx ( Gaelg / Gailic ), or Scottish Gaelic ( Gáidhlig ): it is distantly related to Welsh Cymraeg also Cornish Keenewek & Breton Brezoneg. These form the Brythonic brand of Celtic ...
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 ...
Jul 26, 2016 · corpus for English confirms a widespread belief that the orthography of Irish is more regular. than that of English, the L1 of most beginning readers of Irish. However, this analysis refutes the ...
1. Linguistic characteristics Irish is a Celtic language that, via Proto-Celtic (c. 1.000 B.C.), can be derived from the recon-structed Proto-Indo-European language that was spoken in the Neolithic c. 6.000 years ago. Through this ancestry, Irish is very distantly related to most European languages and to many more in the Near and Middle East.
