Aislingeach wrote:
I cannot believe dialectal difference didn't occur to me! And I know Cian has Gaoluinn na nDéise!
I have been away from my studies too long. I think I may create a database for such dialectal differences as I come across them. And I will definitely be ordering Irish Dialects and Irish-Speaking Districts on payday.
Go raibh maith agaibh do bhúr gcabhair!
Here's a direct link:
https://books.dias.ie/index.php?main_pa ... ucts_id=71Ó Cuív's description of the sub-dialects of Munster is on the whole really quite good, as he makes reference to particular dialects that are no longer with us and have not been recorded to any great detail as far as I know. However, he can make some broad generalisations that are false/ or only partly true; which, to be fair one might expect in a general study of this type, he says so himself.
For instance, he states that where
i is often diphthongised in Déise Irish, e.g.
binn, it is not in East Cork Irish, i.e. Knockonore (technically Waterford) and Knockadoon. However, I have it on good authority - from someone who would have heard the last of the native Irish speakers from Dungourney - that they did quite frequently diphthongise the
i as Déise speakers do.
For instance, notice Séamas Breatnach's (from Knockadoon, Ballymacoda) -
http://www.doegen.ie/LA_1044d1 - diphthongisation of
i in
éinne and
roimhe, very Déise like. He also displays features that would be very strong in (East) Muskerry, but would be atypical, or wouldn't occur as frequently anywhere else, such as the leniting of the
th in
sábháilthe. Examples like these are lovely because you get an idea of the dialectal continuum that used to run along the coast from Waterford to Cork and beyond.
Cian
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I'm familiar with Munster Irish/ Gaolainn na Mumhan (GM) and the Official Standard/an Caighdeán Oifigiúil (CO)