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The consonant letters generally correspond to the consonant phonemes as shown in this table. See Scottish Gaelic phonology for an explanation of the symbols used. Consonants are "broad" when the nearest vowel letter is one of a, o, u and "slender" (palatalised) when the nearest vowel letter is one of e, i .
A distinctive characteristic of Gaelic pronunciation (also present in Scots and Scottish English dialects (cf. girl [ɡɪɾəl] and film [fɪləm]) is the insertion of epenthetic vowels between certain adjacent consonants. This affects orthographic l n r when followed by orthographic b bh ch g gh m mh; and orthographic m followed by l r s ch.
The most obvious phonological difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is that the phenomenon of eclipsis in Irish is diachronic (i.e. the result of a historical word-final nasal that may or may not be present in modern Irish) but fully synchronic in Scottish Gaelic (i.e. it requires the actual presence of a word-final nasal except for a tiny set of frozen forms).
Many word-final consonants have also disappeared in the evolution of Scottish Gaelic, and some traces of them can be observed in the form of prosthetic or linking consonants ( n-, h-, t- , etc.) that appear in some syntactic combinations, for example, after some determiners (see below).
Synchronic lenition in Scottish Gaelic affects almost all consonants (except /l̪ˠ/, which has lost its lenited counterpart in most areas). [3] Changes such as /n̪ˠ/ to /n/ involve the loss of secondary articulation ; in addition, /rˠ/ → /ɾ/ involves the reduction of a trill to a tap .
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Scottish Gaelic on Wikipedia. ... Consonants [1] Broad Slender English approximations IPA Examples IPA
Scottish Gaelic: in some dialects, stops in stressed syllables are voiced after nasals, e.g. cat [kʰaht] 'a cat', an cat [əŋ ɡaht] 'the cat'. Sandhi effects like these (or other phonological processes) are usually the historical origin of morphosyntactically triggered mutation.
In Scottish Gaelic, however, due to the historical loss of voiced stops preaspiration is phonemic in medial and final positions after stressed vowels. [26] The approximate distribution of preaspiration in Gaelic dialects. Its strength varies from area to area and can manifest itself as [ʰ] or [h] or in areas with strong preaspiration as [ç ...