In this video we're going to take a look at some of the differences between the
three main Irish language dialects, as I explained before there's three main
dialects the Munster dialect which is spoken mainly in the south and southwest
the Connacht dialect which is spoken in Connacht and along the west coast such as
Galway and parts of Mayo, and the Ulster dialect which is mainly spoken in the
north like Donegal, Derry, Tyrone and Belfast, so it is the same language but
there are certain intricacies and differences in terms of word usage and
pronunciation and we're going to take a look at some of those now. If you wanted
to say come here in Irish, in Munster you would say Tar anseo
In Connacht slightly different you would say Gabh i leith
but that's very often shortened down to Goile so if you say gabh i leith really fast
you'll end up with goile, and in Ulster if you wanted to say come here
you would say Gabh anseo and that's very often shortened down to
goitse so they are the three main ways of saying
come here in the three dialects, in Munster tar anseo
in Connacht gabh i leith and in Ulster gabh anseo
Moving on to some words then, let's look at this word here this is grá, grá means love
and in Munster and Connacht it's more or less pronounced the same way grá so
it's like a like an awe sound, like in English if you're in awe of someone, it's
kind of like - kind of a awe sound, grá but in Ulster this would be pronounced
grá so slightly different pronunciation there, in a similar way
Álainn is pronounced more or less the same in Munster
and Connacht, álainn means lovely or beautiful, álainn
and very often there's a h before it so it would be in a sentence typically go hálainn
but in Ulster it's not álainn its álainn, so again you can hear the
differences there in the way the á is pronounced, so munster
and connacht - álainn, Ulster álainn, but sticking with the Ulster dialect for a
second, there is another word for lovely that's far more commonly used in Ulster
and that is Galánta, so you could use álainn in Ulster but it's more
popular to hear galánta to be used to describe something that's lovely or
something that's beautiful
The Irish for a dog is Madra, and that's the way I
would pronounce it, that's the way it's pronounced in the munster dialect- madra
in connacht it's more likely to be pronounced like this Mada, so you'd
lose the r, and in Ulster madú so Munster madra Connacht mada and Ulster madú
the irish for hospital is ospidéal, now this
is this can be used in any of the dialects but it's more commonly used in
munster, ospidéal, in connacht you would more than likely hear it being pronounced
like this ospidéal and in Ulster you could still use ospidéal
but it's more common in Ulster to use the following word otharlann
that comes from othar which means patient or inmate so that's where that
originates from it's kind of like a book is leabhar and leabharlann is a library
so that's the that's the philosophy used there, so once again in Munster
ospidéal, in Connacht it's going to be ospidéal and in Ulster otharlann.
So if you enjoyed this video please give it a thumbs up and don't forget to let me
know in the comment section some of your favorite ways of saying different words
in Irish, thanks a million for watching agus slán go fóill.