LL-L "Orthography" 2005.09.26 (06) [E]

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From: Críostóir Ó Ciardha <paada_please at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "Orthography" 2005.09.26 (02) [E]


Paul Finlow-Bates wrote:
"This from a man who speaks and writes Irish!"

Yeah, I hear a lot of people say Irish has a difficult orthography. For the 
most part it's actually very efficient. True, lots of letters can be used to 
describe a single sound such as "aoi" "-aigh" "aí" and so on all 
representing [i:], but it's to do with palatisation and velarisation so it 
does make perfect sense once you learn it. It's sophisticated.

Having said that, I still have difficulty reading Ulster Irish "-adh" as 
[u:]. In the dialect I learnt and in most variants of Irish "-adh" is [a] - 
the "dh" a relic from when the pronunciation was [ad].

I suppose any non-native orthography is undecipherable! :)

Go raibh maith agat,

Críostóir.

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