Traveller2299 wrote:
as Gaodhluinn?. I teeny bit confused. Never heard the word....buy hey happy to learn new shit. Gaidhluinn I think is " The Irish language as a whole," . Not Irish itself as in I speak Irish, not I speak The Irish. Hate to be pedantic. By-product of being a near speaker I guess.
Gaodhluinn is the same as
Gaeilge. It is the Munster dialect for (at least, the Munster dialect as it is spoken in Cork and Kerry-in Waterford it is pronounced
Gaeilinn, with a slender
l), albeit, in the older spelling. The modern spelling is
Gaelainn~Gaoluinn~Gaeluinn~Gaolainn (again,
Gaeilinn in Waterford). Just curious, what dialect are you familiar with, because if you speak a dialect other than Munster Irish than it is very well likely that you will be familiar with forms inconsistent with that of me and David (both of us who speak Munster Irish, him a speaker of
Gaelainn Mhúscraí and a learner of
Gaelainn Chorca Dhuibhne).