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Irish dialects, please help?
someone please tell me the difference between these two dialects, and tell me which one is common standard Irish
http://coffeebreakspanish.typepad.com/on... copy and paste link, and all you have to do is press the play button to hear this uses phrases such as "Is mise..." for my name is... and "Más é do thoil é" for please, and "Go raibh maith agat" for thankyou.
and
http://downloads.zdnet.co.uk/0,100000037...
this software uses phrases such as: "Gabh mo leithsceal" for excuse me, "Slan" for Goodbye
these must be different some way, because the way to say "Goodbye," "please," and "thankyou" are all different
(use those links)
Also, the speaker on the 2nd link seemed to roll his R's when he was pronouncing words
5 Answers
- jkLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
In the first link the pronunciation of "Dia dhuit" is Ulster Irish.
"Is mise Eoin" means "I'm Eoin", its common to all dialects.
The rest of the "One Minute" lessons is all the Standard dialect.
In Byki Dia dhuit is pronounced as in the Munster and Connacht dialect.
However all the phrases are from the Standard dialect.
Differences between phrases is not always dialectal in Irish, there just often more than one way to say something.
- lindgrenLv 44 years ago
Definition of a dialect is that 2 people who communicate diverse dialects of the comparable language can comprehend one yet another, yet no longer unavoidably use the different language. So, in the event that they are dialects, then, particular.
- 1 decade ago
There are 3 main language groups in Europe.
1: The romance languages such as French, Italian, Spanish ect. These languages are of Latin (Roman) origin and tend to occupy southern Europe.
2: The Germanic languages such as German, Swiss, Dutch, Norwegen ect. These tend to occupy northern Europe and as the name suggests they are of germanic origin
3: The Celtic languages, which are Irish, Scottish, Welsh ect. These languages are found in north western Europe, in Britian, Ireland and in northern France.
As a Celtic language Irish is completely different to most other Europian languages, and because of this it is difficult to make a verbatum translation from English to Irish or Irish to English as many of the words have no literal counterpart, and the grammer is also completely different. So translators tend to translate the general meaning of what's been said rather than using a literal translation eg. (boy cow) would be the literal translation from Irish to English of (cowboy)
Note: There are 4 provincial dialects in Ireland, Connaught, Ulster, Leinster & Munster and they are all considered equaly valid. There are also many regional accents.
Source(s): Born & raised in Ireland. Was taught this in school - 1 decade ago
these are all correct i learned allof these in school.Its just there are alot of differnet ways of saying stuff. buiocas la dia
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
there are three dialects, Ulster, Munster, and Connaught.
