Tá a fhios agam, ar ndóigh, go bhfuil na focail Béarlóir agus Gaeilgeoir ann ach an bhfuil an focal Portaingéilióir ann?

Ní cheapfainn go ndeartear Frainciseoir ná Spáinadóir ach an oiread, sa gcaint choitianta ar aon nós.

Cainteoir Portaingéilise - b'fhéidir.

Ach i ndáiríre níl 'fhíos agam.

Go raibh maith a'd, a Bhríd!

From the title I thought you had some advice to give to speakers of Portuguese (on how to speak Irish or something).

Céard é an focal Gaeilge ar "~" ? "What is the Irish word for '~'?" (I would vote the word "for" as one of the hardest to translate into Irish - a deceptively simple preposition.)

I think Bríd is right with cainteoir Portaingéilise, but someone has tried to translate "Francophone" on focal.ie, where it appears as both "Frainciseoir" and "cainteoir Fraincise". If there was a word in Irish it would be *Portaingéiliseoir.

Is there a similar word to "Francophone" in English for a "Portuguese speaker"? "*Portaphone", perhaps? (There's not but if there were it would sound more like a mobile phone)

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

It's "lusophone" in English, after the Roman province of Lusitania.

I was wondering about the title, actually. Is it grammatically acceptable to invert a prepositional phrase with a verbal noun? In ScG you can only invert a noun with the verbal noun, and I thought the same held in Irish...?

[edit: in fact, I realise this is a tá construction, so this isn't even an inversion.]

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A language belongs to its native speakers, and when you speak it, you are a guest in their homes.
If you are not a good guest, you have no right to complain about receiving poor hospitality.

Tapa libh, a Niaill. Another new word for my English vocabulary. (You can't even make a joke around here without learning something.)


I don't think that part of the sentence is a problem in Irish, though you could avoid the verbal noun completely in Irish (and no doubt Scottish Gaelic) by using the following:

duine a bhfuil Portaingéilis aige

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

duine labhartha Portaingéilise

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