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  1. The major native dialects of English are often divided by linguists into three general categories: the British Isles dialects, those of North America, and those of Australasia. [2] Dialects can be associated not only with place but also with particular social groups. Within a given English-speaking country, there is a form of the language ...

  2. Traditional Gaelic orthographies hate writing vowels of adjacent syllables in different syllables next to each other. This is because the vowels tell you so much about nearby consonants that it would make the system infinitely more complicated to string so many vowels together. So "dummy" digraphs are used. These are always "gh," "bh," or "dh."

  3. Irish orthography is within the scope of WikiProject Celts, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of the ancient Celts and the modern day Celtic nations. If you would like to participate, you can edit this article or you can visit the project page , where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks or take part in the ...

  4. Oct 23, 2019 · On the territory of modern Croatia, three dialect groups are spoken: Štokavian, which was chosen as the basis of the Croatian and the Serbo-Croatian standard languages, Kajkavian, and Čakavian. At least Kajkavian can be regarded as a regional standard language and has a rich literature.

  5. eelt0461.indd 2 28-12-2018 19:26:00. English Orthography and Reading3 decoding of written words and encourages readers to analyze words phonetically, letter‐by‐letter. Slightly less shallow (though still on the shallow end of the scale) are the orthographies of Spanish, Italian, and Greek.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Critics of the standardisation of the Irish language argue that the “modernisation” of the Irish orthography has been detrimental to the preservation of the various dialects that form native spoken Irish. The efects of standardisation on Irish consequently form an important prec-edent for language standardisation.