Bríd Mhór mo chara (or really anyone I just called you out because you do it for the focal an lae),

Could you please record pronunciations for:

Fear
Féar
Fearr

I'm totally at a loss...

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Níl mórán Gaeilge agam (fós). Is foghlaimeoir mé...agus is breá liom é!

Is fearr Gaeilge bhriste, ná Béarla cliste.

I have already done it.

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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Fear -> fahr (with a short ah-sound)
Féar -> fayr (roughly) with a long ay-sound
Fearr -> f(e)awr in Connacht and Munster ; fehr (with a long eh-sound) in Ulster (but it's not the same vowel sound as in "féar")

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Is fearr Gaeilg na Gaeltaċta ná Gaeilg ar biṫ eile
Agus is í Gaeilg Ġaoṫ Doḃair is binne

Is maith sin! Go raibh maith agat Bríd!

Never fails, I knew if I asked it would probably have been asked already...

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Níl mórán Gaeilge agam (fós). Is foghlaimeoir mé...agus is breá liom é!

Is fearr Gaeilge bhriste, ná Béarla cliste.

So the distinction I hear betwixt fear and fearr seems to be a softly trilled palatal 'r' to the end of fearr...?!?

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Níl mórán Gaeilge agam (fós). Is foghlaimeoir mé...agus is breá liom é!

Is fearr Gaeilge bhriste, ná Béarla cliste.

In Conamara Irish, at least, I'd distinguish them as follows:

..fear
F(y)AER
/f´æ:r/

..fearr
F(y)AWR
/f´ɑ:r/

..féar
F(y)AIR
/f´e:r/

All the r's are flapped, as usual in Irish. The main difference is in the vowel.

The double r in fearr just turns the vowel a into á.

The double r may have been a stronger rolled/trilled r historically, and the distinction may remain in some dialects in Munster (which may be part of the reason the spelling didn't change to feár*?)

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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).

I don't think there's any distinction r/rr left in Munster, in my experience it only subsists in certain Ulster dialects in the speak of certain older people...

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Is fearr Gaeilg na Gaeltaċta ná Gaeilg ar biṫ eile
Agus is í Gaeilg Ġaoṫ Doḃair is binne

r/rr is that double "rr" similar to the Spanish double rr?

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Tá ach níl an fhuaim gomh láidir agus atá sí i Spáinnis (mar a chualaidh mé é), ach tá níos mó ná buille amháin i gceist, mar i Spáinnis.

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Is fearr Gaeilg na Gaeltaċta ná Gaeilg ar biṫ eile
Agus is í Gaeilg Ġaoṫ Doḃair is binne

Thá an "rr" san fós beo i mbéalaibh na gcainteoirí maithe anso, ach mar sin fhéinig thá'n nós ag imeacht de bharr nósanna droch-fhoghraíochta na sgol agus tréigint na Gaoluinne ar son an Bhéarla ins na Gaeltachtaibh. Is truagh an sgéal é.

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