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  2. Irish phonology - Wikipedia

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    Title page of Die araner mundart. Ein beitrag zur erforschung des westirischen ('The Aran dialect. A contribution to the study of West Irish') ().Until the end of the 19th century, linguistic discussions of Irish focused either on the traditional grammar (issues like the inflection of nouns, verbs and adjectives) or on the historical development of sounds from Proto-Indo-European through Proto ...

  3. Phonological history of Old Irish - Wikipedia

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    [2]: 61 Meanwhile, McCone instead believes that *w was deleted syllable-initially while *w was transformed into b when the *w is separated from a consonant immediately before it by a pre-Irish syllable boundary. [5]: 103 Examples of transformation of *w to b: *widwā > fedb /fʲeðv/ "widow" *selwā > selb /sʲelv/ "possession"

  4. Help:IPA/Irish - Wikipedia

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    This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Irish on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Irish in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.

  5. Irish orthography - Wikipedia

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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 ]

  6. Epenthesis - Wikipedia

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    The three short syllables in reliquiās do not fit into dactylic hexameter because of the dactyl's limit of two short syllables so the first syllable is lengthened by adding another l. However, the pronunciation was often not written with double ll , and may have been the normal way of pronouncing a word starting in rel- rather than a poetic ...

  7. Dublin English - Wikipedia

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    Dublin English is the collection of diverse varieties of Hiberno-English spoken in the metropolitan area of Dublin, the capital of the Republic of Ireland.Modern-day Dublin English largely lies on a phonological continuum between two extremes (largely, a broad versus general accent distinction).

  8. Irish initial mutations - Wikipedia

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    A Irish language sign which displays an inflected form of the word Caisleán "castle" with a mutated c . Irish, like all modern Celtic languages, is characterised by its initial consonant mutations. [1] These mutations affect the initial consonant of a word under specific morphological and syntactic conditions. The mutations are an important ...

  9. Diphthong - Wikipedia

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    American English pronunciation of "no highway cowboys" /noʊ ˈhaɪweɪ ˈkaʊbɔɪz/, showing five diphthongs: / oʊ, aɪ, eɪ, aʊ, ɔɪ / A diphthong (/ ˈ d ɪ f θ ɒ ŋ, ˈ d ɪ p-/ DIF-thong, DIP-; [1] from Ancient Greek δίφθογγος (díphthongos) 'two sounds', from δίς (dís) 'twice' and φθόγγος (phthóngos) 'sound'), also known as a gliding vowel or a vowel glide, is ...