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How is mí-amharach pronounced? Is it always with "mh" as "w" or do some dialects pronounce "mh" as "V." |
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Lughaidh
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Username: Lughaidh
Post Number: 1191
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Friday, December 23, 2005 - 01:44 pm: |
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"amha" is [o:] in Donegal, and I think it is [aw] in Connemara and [ava] in Munster. Wait for the answer of Connemara and Munster speakers though, because I'm not sure.
Donegal /m'i:o:rah/
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Larry
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Username: Larry
Post Number: 129
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Friday, December 23, 2005 - 02:01 pm: |
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mí-ámharach, nach ea?
Larry Ackerman
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Peadar_Ó_gríofa
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Username: Peadar_Ó_gríofa
Post Number: 479
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Friday, December 23, 2005 - 03:08 pm: |
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Galway and Mayo:
mí-ádhmharach m'i:a:βэrэx
tábhachtach ta:βэxdэx
(Message edited by Peadar Ó Gríofa on December 23, 2005)
Peadar Ó Gríofa
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Lughaidh
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Username: Lughaidh
Post Number: 1192
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Friday, December 23, 2005 - 05:10 pm: |
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Ab é "ádhmharach" a bhí i gceist aige? Más eadh, beidh mo fhreagra iontach difriúil !
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(Unregistered Guest)
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| | Posted on Saturday, December 24, 2005 - 01:59 am: |
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thanks
so it can be sounded roughly like english "v" in Munster? Thnaks. Sorry not a linguist, limited Irish, and need to brush up on ipa.
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Peadar_Ó_gríofa
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Username: Peadar_Ó_gríofa
Post Number: 481
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, December 24, 2005 - 03:22 am: |
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Like the Spanish bilabial "v" or "b" in "lavabo," in Munster and Connaught. Midway between English "b" and "w."
I think Lughaidh's "very different" answer is going to be something like m'i:jæ:wэrah.
Peadar Ó Gríofa
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Lughaidh
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Username: Lughaidh
Post Number: 1193
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, December 24, 2005 - 07:16 am: |
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Exactly, Peadar, except that I wouldn't have put a small "j" after /m'i:/.
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| | Posted on Saturday, December 24, 2005 - 01:56 pm: |
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thanks so much |
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