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Talk about nasalised vowels here
Talk about nasalised vowels here


=== Footnotes ===
= Footnotes =
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[[Category:Irish]]
[[Category:Irish]]

Revision as of 10:15, 13 October 2021

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Consonants

Labials

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Labial phonemes
//F// //P// //B// //M//
broad slender broad slender broad slender broad slender
Dialect A fortis /f/ /f′/ /p/ /p′/ /b/ /b′/ /m/ /m′/
lenis [1] /f/ /f′/ /v/ /v′/ /v/ /v′/

Coronal Obstruents

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Coronal obstruent phonemes
//S// //T// //D//
broad slender broad slender broad slender
Dialect A fortis /s/ /ʃ/ /t/ /t′/ /d/ /d′/
lenis /h/ /ɣ/ /j/

Coronal Sonorants

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Coronal sonorant phonemes
//R// //L// //N//
broad slender broad slender broad slender
Dialect A fortis /R/ /r/ /L/ /L′/ /N/ /N′/
lenis /r/ /r′/ /l/ /l′/ /n/ /n′/

Dorsals

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Dorsal phonemes
//K// //G// //Ŋ//
broad slender broad slender broad slender
Dialect A fortis /k/ /k′/ /g/ /g′/ /ŋ/ /ŋ′/
lenis /x/ /ç/ /ɣ/ /j/ [2]

Vowels

Monophthongs

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Diphthongs

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Triphthongs

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Nasalised Vowels

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Footnotes

  1. lenition of either /f/ or /f′/ equates to no sound being pronounced at all
  2. /ŋ/ and /ŋ′/ had never developed any lenis counterparts, neither in the modern nor historical forms of the language