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Linguistics, brewing, early music and cybersecurity. Foghlaimeoir teanga na Gaeltachta; tháim ag foghlaim Gaeilinn na nDéise. https://xitter.cf/t.co/ip364WOpeN

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1/ Let’s talk about Irish (Gaelic) phonology. Firstly, what is phonology? Phonology is the most fundamental component when speaking meaningful language. Every language, dialect, etc. has its own phonology. Non-linguists generally use the term “accent”.
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Replying to @RTEOne @ktrappe @rtenews
I missed the programme. Did they mention that there are only about 18,000 native speakers left? Or have native speakers and the Gaeltacht been forgotten about again. An inconvenient truth. #GaeltachtSOS #Gaeilge #taboo
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Your point is well made @DerekHolly7 Unfortunately, a version of the same twisted official logic also exists in Ireland of ignoring the social demise of native-speaking Irish communities so as to prepare for the post-Gaeltacht era. The promoting Irish to death syndrome! #Gaeilge
Derek Hollingsworth (@DerekHolly7) profile pictureDerek Hollingsworth@DerekHolly726 Feb 2025
A sister language of Irish is being nursed to death by the Scottish government, who would rather focus on Gaelic as a second (learned) language than address the challenges of the remaining speaker communities. #Gaelic #Gàidhlig
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Scottish Languages Bill "will outlive the remaining #Gaelic-speaking communities. ... It represents an institutionalised vision, both unsympathetic towards community reality and nonchalant about the risks of terminal demise" #GaelicCrisis @TheScotsman bit.ly/3EThMSB
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For anyone interested, Áine Uí Fhoghlú's 2004 UCC MPhil thesis "An briathar mí-rialta i nGaeluinn na nDéise" is now publicly accessible and well worth a read! cora.ucc.ie/items/e95a65e5-0…
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A book recommendation for the youngest generation of Old Irish learners: 𝓐𝓶 𝓘 𝓼𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓵? 𝓘𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓫𝓮𝓬-𝓼𝓪? by Philipp Winterberg (Author) & Nadia Wichmann (Illustrator); translated by Francesco Felici and myself. amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DCWVV68F
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I was thrilled to discover among the exhibition of Thurneysen's books a manuscript by Christian Ludwig Stern in which he had made a calligraphic facsimile plus transcription of the small Irish manuscript kept in Stockholm. This MS contains one of the four copies of the poem...
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It’ll never be perfect, but it’s more or less the book that I wish I had had 32 years ago. I hope that it illuminates more than it occludes and does service to this beautiful, fascinating language and the community who speak it 🙏 #gaelic #grammar #grateful
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Scholars of Early Gaelic and Proto-Celtic, the publications of Kim McCone are being digitised and uploaded to his new website for free download. Quite a bit there already and looks like there's more to come! kimmccone.org/
Homepage - Kim McCone's Books

Homepage - Kim McCone's Books

This website is maintained by John McCone with a view to making available digital, downloadable copies of books and articles on Medieval Irish, Celtic and Indo-European  topics by his father, Kim...

kimmccone.org
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A letter from Rosa (Ní Dhochartaigh) Uí Néill, wife of Eoghan Ruadh Ó Néill, 1642, Louvain, Belgium. Published in Gilbert's ‘Affairs of Ireland’ vol 1, part 2 (1879). Transcription and translation work done by @silmeth.
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one comment re:the census: I think the biggest disservice we’ve done for Gaelic is pretending duolingo etc are markers of progress while the gàidhealtachd becomes more and more unlivable. it doesn’t matter if people learn a few phrases while the language loses its home and soul.
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New on the #OG_H_AM website. Fascinating monthly blog by @AdeODubhghaill about the "Future of Digital Ogam": how can @unicode update its ogham block to facilitate its usage for research about the script? What can we learn from hieroglyphs for ogham? ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.ph…
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How to pronounce the letter "r" in Irish (#Gaeilge) @ForasnaGaeilge @GlornanGael @DerekHolly7 @SpraoiBAC @qub_gaeilge @GaeilgeToronto @CumannGaelach0L @UdarasnaG @RTERnaG @cnag @IrishBusinessNY @CnaGaeilgeLA @CnaGAotearoa @CumannQub @CumannGaelach #Irish vm.tiktok.com/ZGemDbVjg/
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...nasc "fastening, tie, spancel, ring; legal bond", the word that allegedly inspired Tolkien to the terms nazg "ring" & nazgûl "ring wraith" in the Black Language. In order to fulfil metrical requirements, I took the liberty of making the poem longer in lines than the original.
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I am 𝓿𝓮𝓻𝔂 happy to announce that the revised version 2 of my little exercise about the "Rise of Gemination in Celtic" (now just over 40,000 words) has been published open access at: open-research-europe.ec.euro…. I sincerely thank my formal peer-reviewers @MJKue @AndersRJorg... /1
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‘Tógadh le Gaeilge mé agus níl mórán Gaeilgeoirí fágtha anseo anois’
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FÍSEÁN: ‘Tógadh le Gaeilge mé agus níl mórán Gaeilgeoirí fágtha anseo anois’ via @tuairiscnuacht tuairisc.ie/fisean-togadh-le…
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Wanting objective linguistic criteria on which to distinguish "dialect" from "related language" is like wanting a way to derive political borders using a map showing only natural geography. At some points (rivers like the Rhine, for instance) you can do that. But largely you cannot, because those borders — like the language/dialect distinction— only exist as a function of human beliefs and behavior.
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Clár na Seachtaine seo: Cainteoirí dúchais ón Iar-Ghaeltacht: - Oileán Bhríde & An Sciobairín, Co. Chorcaí 🟥⬜️ - AnCaisleán Nua, Co. Thiobraid Árann 🟦🟨 - Cill Bheathach, Co. An Chláir 🟨🟦 - Fadhbach, Co. Chiarraí 🟩🟨 10:08 Dé Domhnaigh | 2:05pm Dé hAoine & Pod @RTERnaG
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