Help:IPA/Irish
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According to Wikipedia:Manual of Style (pronunciation), Wikipedia uses the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to indicate pronunciations. This holds true of Irish as much as for any other language. However, learners' materials published elsewhere use slightly different conventions. This page compares the IPA system used at Wikipedia (which is based on that used by Ailbhe Ní Chasaide in her description of Irish in the Handbook of the International Phonetic Association, ISBN 0-521-63751-1) with the system used in two popular learners' books: Learning Irish by Mícheál Ó Siadhail (ISBN 0-300-04224-8) and the dictionary Foclóir Póca (ISBN 1-85791-047-8).
See Irish phonology for detailed discussion of the phonology of Irish.
| IPA | Symbol in Learning Irish |
Symbol in Foclóir Póca |
Common spellings of this sound |
|---|---|---|---|
| a | æ:, a: | a | a, ai, ea, eai |
| aː | ɑ: | a: | á, ái, eá, eái |
| ai | ai | ai | aigh, aidh, agh, adh, eagh, eadh, eigh, eidh |
| au | au | au | abh, amh, eabh, eamh |
| bˠ | b | b | b (next to a, o, u) |
| bʲ | bʹ | bʹ | b (next to e, i) |
| c | kʹ | kʹ | c (next to e, i) |
| ç | xʹ | xʹ | ch (next to e, i) |
| ɕ | sʹ | sʹ | s (next to e, i) |
| d̪ˠ | d | d | d (next to a, o, u) |
| dʲ | dʹ | dʹ | d (next to e, i) |
| eː | e: | e: | é, éa, éi, ae, aei |
| ɛ | e | e | e, ei, oi |
| ə | ə | ə | a, e, i (unstressed syllable) |
| fˠ | f | f | f (next to a, o, u) |
| fʲ | fʹ | fʹ | f (next to e, i) |
| ɡ | g | g | g (next to a, o, u) |
| ɣ | ɣ | γ | dh, gh (next to a, o, u) |
| h | h | h | h, sh, th |
| iː | i: | i: | í, ío, ao, aoi, uí, uío, aí, aío |
| ɪ | i | i | i, io, ui |
| iə | i:ə | iə | ia, iai |
| j | ɣʹ | γʹ | dh, gh (next to e, i) |
| ɟ | gʹ | gʹ | g (next to e, i) |
| k | k | k | c (next to a, o, u) |
| ɫ̪ | L | l | l, ll (next to a, o, u) |
| lʲ | Lʹ, lʹ | lʹ | l, ll (next to e, i) |
| mˠ | m | m | m (next to a, o, u) |
| mʲ | mʹ | mʹ | m (next to e, i) |
| n̪ˠ | N | n | n, nn (next to a, o, u) |
| nʲ | Nʹ, nʹ | nʹ | n, nn (next to e, i) |
| ɲ | ŋʹ | ŋʹ | ng (next to e, i) |
| ŋ | ŋ | ŋ | ng (next to a, o, u) |
| oː | o: | o: | ó, ói, eo, eoi |
| ɔ | o | o | o, oi |
| pˠ | p | p | p (next to a, o, u) |
| pʲ | pʹ | pʹ | p (next to e, i) |
| ɾˠ | r | r | r (next to a, o, u, and always word-initially), rr |
| ɾʲ | rʹ | rʹ | r (next to e, i unless word-initially) |
| sˠ | s | s | s (next to a, o, u) |
| t̪ˠ | t | t | t (next to a, o, u) |
| tʲ | tʹ | tʹ | t (next to e, i) |
| uː | u: | u: | ú, úi, iú, iúi |
| ʊ | u | u | u, io, iu |
| uə | u:ə | uə | ua, uai |
| vʲ | wʹ | vʹ | bh, mh (next to e, i) |
| w | w | v | bh, mh (next to a, o, u) |
| x | x | x | ch (next to a, o, u) |