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“fà dtaobh do” it has a special pronunciation (an irregular one), it is “fah doo doh”.doh = IPA /dÉ™/ ?
Kings is a movie in (mostly) Irish with English sub-titles.
The only movie in the Irish language that has Irish sub-titles available is Cré na Cille.
excellent
in which dialect is this film? and do the Gaeilge subtitles match the dialogue?
grma
A Chairde
does anyone know of any speaking Irish and having Irish subtitles (not English subtitles)
grma
On the audio lessons I am using, ‘ai’ sounds very similar to the ‘ea’ or IPA /æ/
also din and dean sound very similar to IPA /ɪ/ (like English thɪs)
So ‘ai’ is general pronounced as in English “owe” ?
Or is there variation
I thought the sound was more like ‘ah’grma Aonghus
How accurate would you say it is?I typed in [size=3]sa bhaile[/size]
and the conversion output = [color=green] sË É™ vË a lʲ É™[/color]A Chairde
Pota Focal is very helpful ; does it have phonetic / pronunciation eg. IPA ? I didn’t find any yet.
if not, is there another online dictionary having some sort of pronunciation or IPA ?
grma
In late Latin language at the time of the adoption of Latin alphabet for the Irish language there was no /h/ sound. The letter H was mute in Latin.
According to David Stifter’s Old Irish for Beginners the letter H was “empty” in the earliest sources of Old Irish which means that it stood for nothing (except in the digraphs ch, ph, th). The letter h was mute and used at the beginning of words before vowels just to make the word look bigger, eg hi /i/ = “in”.
H-Prefix was usually not written: a ech /a hex/ = her horse (a heach in Modern Irish), inna Éirenn /ina he:rÉ™n/ = of Ireland (na hÉireann).
in later texts the letter h did represent the sound /h/ though instances of cases like hi for /i/ also occured frequentlygrma
So if I understand, then there was no initial ‘h’ sound spoken in Old Irish?
