How do you pronounce Inis Meáin?

Is there a difference between the way it's pronounced on the island itself and somewhere like Ros a'Mhíl?

GRMA

An bhfuil “inis” ráite mar “inios” i gceist a’d? Tá Inis Oírr /in’əs i:r’/ ann, ceart go leor, ach tá sé ag cinnteadh orm anois cuimhniú ar ar ceadmhach é i gcás Inis Meáin ar chor ar bith…

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If someone is interested in the language of these isles, there is a German publication "Die araner Mundart. Ein Beitrag
zur Erforschung des Westirischen von Franz Nikolaus Finck.", which is digitalized in http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Die_araner_mundart

There you find the pronuciation "iniš" "Insel" and mĭān "Mitte" air. medón, so Inis Meadhóin is "the middle island" which is probably pronounced there "iniš mĭān".

In Ulster we'd pronounce [ɪnʲɪʃ ˈmæːnʲ], I'd say.

Inish Man! Or the bleá claithach's Or Inish myawn for A Conamara head..

A Domhnall eile - cuir dom r-phoist!

Keep in mind that some of us don't know IPA or can understand replies entirely in Irish.

Thanks anyway

Danny, cad chuige nach mbíonn tú ar IGT na laethanta seo?

I called one of the B&Bs on the island. In their voicemail recording it was pronounced Inish Meen, approximately.

Moi!?

Toi!

Do you mean “inis” pronounced as “innios”? I know that the traditional way of pronouncing “Inis Oírr” is / iN’əs i:r/ (mind /s/ and /r/ are both broad (!) my previous post had a flawed transcription). As for “Inis Meáin”, I checked Irish of Iorras Aithneach and it says that it is /iN’ə∫ m’α:n’/ there and no “innios” has ever been registered for this dialect. Although the author mentions the source abbreviated as LSE (that provides indications of “innios meáin”) that I also checked for the full name but I can’t remember it now.

"Danny, cad chuige nach mbíonn tú ar IGT na laethanta seo?"

No idea what this means, so I'm unable to respond effectively. If I could, I'd have posted the thread in Irish only.

It's Inishmawn, by the way. This was confirmed by native speakers on the island.

Inishmeen and Inishmahn are incorrect.

Lá deireanach ariamh ar choláiste amárach Domhnall. Mar sin, róghnóthach faoi láthair. Déanfad ceann a scríobh chugat ar na mallaibh...

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Inishmahn are incorrect

Not incorrect, simply not the local pronunciation.

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simply not the local pronunciation

Tá samplaí de seo, de dhifríochtaí idir an fuaimniú áitiúl agus an fuaimniú "eachtrannach" an-choitianta ar fud an domain. Rugadh is tógadh mise i gcathair darb ainm "Concord". /kank@rd/ a dúirt muid. /kankord/ a chuala muid ó dhaoine eile go mion minic.

Tá na mílte rudaí mar sin ins a’ Bhriotáin fosta, eadar an t-ainm Fraincise, an t-ainm Briotáinise san áit féin, agus an t-ainm Briotáinise sna háiteacha eile.

Mar shompla: Châteauneuf du Faou i bhFraincis, Kastell-Nevez-ar-Faou i mBriotáinis na bparóistí eile, agus "ar C'has'-Ne' " san áit féin.

Bíonn na hainmneacha áitiúla i bhfad níos giorra, siocair go n-abrann na daoiní an t-am ar fad iad, mar sin de réir a chéile giorradh iad. Caithfidh go bhfuil rudaí mar sin le fáilt i nGaeltachtaí na hÉireann fosta, gidh nach bhfuil cuimhne agam ar shompla ar bith fá láthair.

Bléan Rí (baile (nó Béal, ní cuimhin liom) átha an Rí) a ritheann liom ar an dtoirt.

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Caithfidh go bhfuil rudaí mar sin le fáilt i nGaeltachtaí na hÉireann fosta

Deirtear -- nó deir scoláirí áirithe -- go mbíonn an leagan "Béarla" de logainmneacha níos giorra, go minic, don fhuaimniú áitiúil a bhíodh ann nuair a bhí an Ghaeilge i réim ná an leagan scríofa Gaeilge. An "giorrú áitiúil" a luaidh tú thuas ba chúis leis seo, ar ndóigh.

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Bléan Rí

Agus Bleá Cliath, ar ndóigh.