The Irish for a dialect is canúint, and that's what we're going
to look at in this video, we're going to examine the three main dialects of the
Irish language, I'm going to explain some of the differences, similarities and the
intricacies of each dialect. If you wish to learn more about the Irish language
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video, so back to this video anyway there's three main dialects - the southern
dialect is the Munster dialect and the Western dialect is mainly spoken in
Connemara on the West coast and the Ulster dialect then is mainly spoken in
Donegal and the north of Ireland. Let's look at how you would say how are you in
Irish, in Munster in the south/southwest it would be Conas atá tú?
In Connacht and Galway it would most likely be Cén chaoi a bhfuil tú?
and in Ulster, Donegal it would be Cad é mar atá tú?
now these three ways/methods of saying how are you are
interchangeable and understood by Irish speakers ar fud na tíre = throughout the country.
Let's take a look at this word here - Craoladh
Craoladh is the Irish for broadcast and I'm pronouncing it the
way it would be pronounced in Munster, "Crale a" so there's an a sound at the end
and kind of an a sound in the middle as well, "Crale a", but if we look at the Connacht
or the Western Way of pronouncing that word it would most likely be "creeolla" so
there's a bit of an e sound there just in the 3rd/4th letters there
"creeolla" it's still spelt the same way but the e sound is quite evident there and
in Ulster then that would be "crale uu" because very often the ADH transitions
into a u sound in Ulster irish "crale uu" so briefly again Munster = "Crale a"
Connacht = "creeolla" and Ulster = "Crale uu"
Let's look at this word here this is Bagáiste, and this is the Irish for baggage or luggage
If you notice the way I'm pronouncing that I'm putting more of an emphasis and stress
on the end of the word bagÁISTE so the a-i-s-t-e at the end is getting more of a
more of a focus let's say but in Connemara it's more evenly spread
or if anything there's more of an emphasis emphasis at the start of the
word so Bagáiste and then in Ulster similar it's more of an even
spread or possibly more of a focus at the start of the word
Bagáiste so there's a bit of a u sound at the
end there Bagáiste, so just to summarise, Munster = Bagáiste
Connacht = Bagáiste and Ulster = Bagáiste
If we take this word here now Iontach is the Irish for wonderful or marvelous or fantastic and
it would often take a séimhiú which is a h in a sentence so it could
transition into go hiontach, so I'm pronouncing that the Munster way
Iontach a definite oo sound and in Connemara it would be Iontach or
go hiontach, and you can hear the e there coming out quite
loudly and it still keeps the ach at the end but in Ulster
then it would be Iontach, it would lose that ach at the end and kind of turns
into a ta, so Munster = Iontach, Connacht = Iontach and Ulster = Iontach.
Another thing that is quite unique I guess to Munster Irish is that very
very often mh is V sound and a good example of this would be the word for
good which is maith and then if we put an an before it becomes very good so an-mhaith
very good an-mhaith, but in the other dialects the mh
would be a W sound so it would be on an-mhaith, and you might have heard there
that I put in a little bit of an a sound between the an and mhaith and
that helps the person to say it in a better way and it's something that I
was taught all throughout school and I've just kept it going ever since
an-mhaith whereas in the other dialects it would
most likely be an-mhaith without that little extra vowel in between an and mhaith
The important thing to remember when we're talking about
all these dialects is that at the end of the day (ag deireadh an lae) at the end of
the day (ag deireadh an lae) it's all the same language and these are just things
that are unique to the different dialects and it's part of what makes the
Irish language so unique and special. So that brings us the end of this video if
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agus slán go fóill.