http://www.gaelport.com/index.php?page=clippings&id=1595&viewby=date

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The internet version of the new dictionary, due for completion in three years, will have sound files offering the correct pronunciation of words.

http://www.focloir.ie/

aye, agus cá bhfuil na projects eile a bhíonn ag obair? [That do be -dont think the relative construction is correct].

Voice recognistion, computer dictation, computer speech, DIL online etc etc.


Tá an poll an-mhór ag ithe airgead na hÉireann!

It would be wrong to do anything other than welcome this, but a question springs to mind: all the words in the dictionary read in the Lárchanúint?

Many countries don't have an official pronunciation, and so when you learn the language they tell you "this is broadcast Swedish" or whatever, ie the pronunciation most frequently heard in the media is the quasi-standard. Is it correct to say that Connaught Irish is a quasi-standard? I am sorry I have never heard TG4 and so I cannot say myself. I am thinking that Ros Muc should become a quasi-standard pronunciation for Irish, given the collapse of Munster Irish since the founding of the state...

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Is it correct to say that Connaught Irish is a quasi-standard?

No.

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given the collapse of Munster Irish since the founding of the state

Huh? What makes you think that?

All major and most minor gaeltacht accents will be heard on RnaG and TG4 and the few programs in Irish on the main RTÉ channels, along with some derived accents.

(TG4 and RTÉ share news personnel)

Most fluent speakers outside the gaeltacht (people like me) would be influenced by a gaeltacht accent - in my case and in many (most?) others, that will be a munster accent.