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Aonghus
Member Username: Aonghus
Post Number: 8456 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 - 05:53 am: |
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| Posted on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 - 12:39 pm: |
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In catalan and spanish, someone can read a text from XIII century and understand 90% of the sense. Is the same in irish? |
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Abigail
Member Username: Abigail
Post Number: 1090 Registered: 06-2006
| Posted on Thursday, June 18, 2009 - 04:20 am: |
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Depends who's reading! There was a fairly comprehensive spelling reform in the 1950s, so young people with no prior exposure to pre-reform texts may struggle with that. It's fairly simple though (ten pages is more than enough to get the hang of it) and once you get past that, comprehensibility is pretty good. I'd say an average reader familiar with pre-reform spelling could get 90% comprehension back to about the 16th century (e.g. Bedell's Bible.) For a 13th-century text, perhaps 60-70%. Tá fáilte roimh chuile cheartú!
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Lughaidh
Member Username: Lughaidh
Post Number: 3009 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Thursday, June 18, 2009 - 01:21 pm: |
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The texts about the 3 pigs, which is in Old Irish, has many words and forms that are hard to understand. The vocabulary has changed, and the verbal system too. There are many verbs you wouldn't recognize at all. Actually the best way would be to ask to some native speaker to read such a text and to say what he/she has understood of it... :-) Learn Irish pronunciation here: http://loig.cheveau.ifrance.com/irish/irishsounds/irishsounds.html & http://fsii.gaeilge.org/
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Faberm
Member Username: Faberm
Post Number: 70 Registered: 02-2009
| Posted on Thursday, June 18, 2009 - 07:49 pm: |
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Is maith liom go leor an scéal na triur muc beag! Go raibh maith agat. Bhí mé sasta ag tógáíl litriocht sin. GRMA, FaberM |
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Faberm
Member Username: Faberm
Post Number: 71 Registered: 02-2009
| Posted on Thursday, June 18, 2009 - 07:54 pm: |
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Is maith liom an scéal na triur mucca beag. Go raibh maith agat. Tá scéal iontach brea go leor. GRMA, Faber M |
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