Now, that I didn't anticipate!

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labhraím Gaoluinn na Mumhan chomh maith má thá aon chabhair bhuaibh!

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I was going to suggest that as well, each phrase in all three dialects. It would be extremely helpful for me to see how Munster differs from the others, both in word usage and sentence structure. The lack of Munster learning materials is somewhat disheartening.

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Táim ag foghlaim Gaelainn na Mumhan

Tá fáilte roim nach aon cheartú!
I am a learner. Any translations offered are practice and should not be used unless confirmed.

there is the old Teach Yourself Irish, in West Cork Irish, with recordings (by a native speaker), for free, online... please don't complain because there's nothing like that to learn Ulster Irish, not any single book that would teaches to speak as people do!
Connemara Irish has Learning Irish
Munster Irish has the old Teach Yourself
Ulster Irish has... nothing so far.

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

That is a pity. And rather odd really, considering the amount of people who choose to learn Ulster dialect.
If I didn't already have Irish already I'd choose Ulster. It has a lovely lyrical sound to it. And mostly uncontamined by the Caighdeán.


On second thought I think it is better to have the first phrase as "hello" "how are you?" in the 3 dialects.
Rather than "cá bhfuil an leithreas?"
And like Breandán originally suggested to have it in a locked thread, and questions about it referred to this thread.

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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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Right, I propose two things:

First, let's make it Frása na Seachtaine/Phrase of the Week.

Second, I propose we start of with a conversation fragment.

I think in Connemara, two older people might greet each other:

A: Dia dhuit ! "Hello!" (to one person)
B: Dia's Muire dhuit ! "Hello!" (reply to one person)

Or arriving at a group:

A: Dia dhaoibh ! "Hello!" (to a group)
B: Dia's Muire dhaoibh ! "Hello!" (reply to a group)

And a third person might greet the first two:
C: Dia's Muire's Pádraig dhaoibh !

And a fourth person might greet the first three:
D: Dia's Muire's Pádraig is Bríd dhaoibh !

I think that's the traditional Connemara pattern. But I've heard Munster starts at Dia's Muire duit ! and works up? Is that true? What about Ulster?

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WARNING: Intermediate speaker - await further opinions, corrections and adjustments before acting on my advice.
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect.
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), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

'Gaschaint' by Úna Lawlor, is a useful resource for precisely this kind of thing. Simple everyday phrases to help someone not brought up with Irish as a first language.

http://www.litriocht.com/shop/product_i ... ts_id=3883

For example:

'Look down!'
Gaeilge Chonnacht - 'Breathnaigh síos!'
Gaeilge Uladh - 'Amharc síos!'
Gaeilge na Mumhan - 'Féach síos!'

The idea of the thread sounds very interesting.

I was about to 'submit' when I saw Breandán's post, but figured I'd go ahead and submit anyway. I agree with all that he said too.

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Yep, in Munster we start off with Dia's Muire dhuit. That is definitly true of the irish of an Rinn, not to sure about Corca dhuibhne or Músraighe, but I'd say they have the same tradition.

and then the freagra: Dia 's Muire 's Pádraig dhuit

After that you have bríd and so on- I don't think there's much of a pattern after Bríd you can name any saint you want.

But, because of the caighdeán in schools this tradition is only in Gaeltacht areas and is still very strong in an Rinn.

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I think you'd start with "Dia duit" in Ulster and the other person would answer "Dia's Muire duit".
But anyway I didn't hear that too often in Ulster because people rather say "halló" or "dé mar atá tú?" or things like that. I think "Dia duit" is formal, and normally in the Gaeltacht, people know each other most of the time

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Agus is í Gaeilg Ġaoṫ Doḃair is binne

That's been my impression as well.

Redwolf