Re: Essentialist Explaination
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 2, 2002, 21:02 |
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En réponse à Keith Gaughan <kgaughan@...>:
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> Well, Cíat and Keith sound more or less alike.
Well, my knowledge of Irish is not big, but according to the orthography I'd
guess Cíat is [k_ji:t], while Keith is probably more [ki:T]. They sound close
enough, agreed :)) . Or is Irish |t| ever pronounced [T]?
I'm a bit too
> lazy right now to transcribe Gáibhtheacháin into IPA, but
> it's a bit like this: gow-AHKH-aawn', the apostrophy indicating
> palatalisation.
>
Would it be something like [gA:w"haxA:n_j]? According to what I've understood
of the Irish orthography, that's what it hints at... Although [A] could well be
[Q] or [O], I've never seen an IPA chart of the Irish vowels.
Christophe.
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