Fear_na_mbróg
Member Username: Fear_na_mbróg
Post Number: 81 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Thursday, September 09, 2004 - 08:46 am: |
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It sure can be spoken fast! Maybe more so than other languages, mostly on account of sticking "h"'s before vowels, eg. le háthas, and all the séimhithe and urúithe I suppose lead to the ability to speak it faster too: Níl ní ar bith níos áille ná an ghealach os cionn an tsáile. But is Irish a high-speed language? Some people speak slow, others speak fast. I'd presume that one's accent contributes to their speed of speech. So maybe if you put them both together: The Irish Language spoken with an Irish accent, then you may be left with people who, relative to the rest of the world, speak fast! I for one can say that people in Connacht, like in Galway, have sentence leaping out of their mouthes. |