Scottish Gaelic phonology and orthography
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scottish-gaelic-phonology-and-orthography-177-12550311
title:
Scottish Gaelic phonology and orthography
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There is no standard variety of Scottish Gaelic; although statements below are about all or most dialects, the north-western dialects are discussed more than others as they represent the majority of speakers. Gaelic phonology is characterised by:
- a phoneme inventory particularly rich in sonorant coronal phonemes
- a contrasting set of palatalised and non-palatalised consonants
- strong initial word-stress and vowel reduction in unstressed syllables
- The presence of preaspiration of st
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic_phonology_and_orthography
date created:
2009-01-18T18:29:20Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T03:02:03Z
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