Welsh and Scots Gaelic, their consonants are not aspirated in voiceless consonants, AFIK, unlike English.

In the dialect books, they say they are, and the Lars Braesicke sites says they are not.

If you say words like 'ioc', there is no aspiration, while initially, with 'caoi', I make the puff of air.

So, what givies?

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Oops, the English translation is really in bad need of an update.

In the German version Irish voiceless consonants are of course aspirated:
http://www.braesicke.de/phonol.htm

http://www.daltai.com/discus/messages/1 ... 1127491661

Lughaidh argues at the end of the thread that voiceless consonants are not aspirated. Is it due to an earlier misunderstanding?

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