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Bearn
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Username: Bearn
Post Number: 1027
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 09:12 am: |   
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This tends to happen in Irish (Nollaig, Nollaic) and in Hibero-English (grand, grant), but does it happen all the time, for example 'mo ghasúr beag', would beag be a k with no aspiration? It seems that I am saying it that way.
Anyway, it's useful if you are trying to speak Korean, if you know what I mean |
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Lughaidh
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Username: Lughaidh
Post Number: 2701
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 09:53 am: |
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It's the rule in Scottish Gaelic, however it looks like it happens only in a few words in Irish. For example, several words that end in -(a)ig (Nollaig, reilig, Gaeilg, thainig...)
Learn Irish pronunciation here: http://loig.cheveau.ifrance.com/irish/irishsounds/irishsounds.html & http://fsii.gaeilge.org/
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Bearn
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Username: Bearn
Post Number: 1028
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 10:52 am: |
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I think it can happen for d at the end of words in some Mayo, but I'll have to check later. I'm doing statistics now... |
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Domhnaillín_breac_na_dtruslóg
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Username: Domhnaillín_breac_na_dtruslóg
Post Number: 419
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 12:20 pm: |
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This is a very limited phenomenon. It only affects final /g(')/ after an unstressed vowel. It's also not a feature of southern Irish (although there are few Munster words where final /ng(')/ becomes /k(')/, e.g. tarraic for tarraing). |
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