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The Gaelic
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PRONUNCIATION.
b long like OW in fawn ap corr heron; ol, drink.
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HE Gaelic Alphabet contains
long
eighteen
like o in bold, as Ion, meadow; bo, cow.
6 short like o in modest, as cor, condition ; orva,
letters a, b, c, d, e, f , g, h, i, 1, m, n, o, p, on them.
t.u.
ort like o in bowl, as
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dol,
vowels are divided into broad and small. .
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uke ojp in ^ ag fonn to ,, d tllil> hole.
The broad area, o, and u ;
the small e, andi.
lono & like oo i upOor, asur, new; ui rait,6twl.
The Consonants are classed as denta s tt, t,
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short like u in full ag cur)Se ?t rf;ny ; guth,
a ;
labials b, f , m, p ; liuguals 1, n, r ; palatals ^.^
is the mark of aspiration and is never found SOUNDS OF THE DIPHTHONGS.
aAone in a word, but always after the letters b,
ai ^ j^ ^ & ^ as ^aimh, kinship.
c, H, f, g, m, p, s, t. I ai 2 ,, a & i, as daiinh, of an ox.
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Thure are two accents the grave and acute.
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3 a, the t being silent, as failte, teelcome.
Either of these placed over a vowel indicates
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that it is long, anil that it has a specific sound a, the i being silent, as tais, soft.
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j fi a, short, the i being silent, as tairbhe,
ace rdin* to which is used. The accents also
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profit airm, arms.
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erve to distinguish between words that are
aol ,, I, the o being silent, as aog, death',
the same in spelling but different in meaning.
In almost all polysyllables, excepting some
caol, slender.
>rnpounded with a preposition, the ac- ea 1 e short, & a, as geall, wager.
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e, short, & a, as geal, white.
cent /alls on the first syllable. The others arc
3 e, a
short and unaccented, and the vowels in that
being silent, as dean, do.
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^ e, a
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being silent, as lean, follow.
sir nation haveiu general sh.-rt obscure sounds.
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it happens that the vowels in these
i being silent &dh sounded, as cldidh,
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so often used indiscriminately. ei 2 ?, i is silent & eft sounded, as deich, ten.
.ent final vowls.
ei 3 6, the *
Th-c-re are si UK- s.ounds in Gaelic to which
being silent, asceile, spouse.
ei 4
t*iere are none perfectly similar i
English, and e, tho
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ibeir.g silent, as ceihfc, question,
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tbe same combinatio does i.ot ijiTHriably re- e sli?htly sounded & 6, as ceol, musio.
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eo 2
the .-ame sound in differei.t parts of the e slightly sounded and 6, as beothail,
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Highlands, 1 h.< powers of the different letters
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may be esp'.-.ined with a certain degree of ac- e, the u being silent, as ceum, a step.
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curacy, yet much will till remain to be learned \
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by the ear alone. As this subject is fully dis- , ,
i the o being silent, as lion, fill.
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