@mihanich She has no anglophone accent at all, she speaks with the local accent and she doesn't pronounce the r's as in English. Everybody speaks like that in Gaoth Dobhair and that has nothing in common with any English accent... The Irish r's (the broad ones) are one-tap alveolar r's - as everywhere in the Gaeltacht anyway (and in Scotland too). The ENglish ones are approximants and don't sound like that at all.
The song in the beginning of these docs, for the 6 seconds that you hear it lol, is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard. Does anyone know the name/artist of the song?
@seamuspowers I was thinking exactly the same thing. There is very much a 'Scandinavian' sould to the accent of Irish Gaelic spoken in this documentary I have heard many nordic languages spoken, and so- despite the claim they are are not technically related...there is I agree, Seamus an uncanny auditory similarity between gaelic and Norwegian and/or other nordic languages.
gaelic sounds Norse? I wonder if the two languages are related, because the accents when spoken sound very similar. But the written parts of both languages dont sound the same. However when spoken I bet an irish gaelic speaker could speak Norwegian or Swedish. Im irish and finnish and wish to learn gaelic and finnish but both languages are complex, I would need a tutor.
Irish is not closely related to Norwegian or Swedish. English is actually much more closely related to those two languages. Irish is closely related to Welsh, Manx, Cornish, and Breton, but only distantly related to English and Norwegian.
@seamuspowers I was thinking exactly the same thing. There is very much a 'Scandinavian' sould to the accent of Irish Gaelic spoken in this documentary I have heard many nordic languages spoken, and so- despite the claim they are are not technically related...there is I agree, Seamus an uncanny auditory similarity between gaelic and Norwegian and/or other nordic languages.
@seamuspowers I was thinking exactly the same thing. There is very much a 'Scandinavian' sould to the accent of Irish Gaelic spoken in this documentary I have heard many nordic languages spoken, and so- despite the claim they are are not technically related...there is I agree, Seamus an uncanny auditory similarity between gaelic and Norwegian and/or other nordic languages.
@seamuspowers I was thinking exactly the same thing. There is very much a 'Scandinavian' sould to the accent of Irish Gaelic spoken in this documentary I have heard many nordic languages spoken, and so- despite the claim they are are not technically related...there is I agree, Seamus an uncanny auditory similarity between gaelic and Norwegian and/or other nordic languages.
is it just me or she speaks with a terrible anglophone accent? isn't it proper to pronounce gaelic "r" rolled like in spanish?
mihanich 8 months ago
@mihanich its probably cause shes from ulster. irish in the north sounds more like scots gaelic
EoR610 8 months ago
@mihanich She has no anglophone accent at all, she speaks with the local accent and she doesn't pronounce the r's as in English. Everybody speaks like that in Gaoth Dobhair and that has nothing in common with any English accent... The Irish r's (the broad ones) are one-tap alveolar r's - as everywhere in the Gaeltacht anyway (and in Scotland too). The ENglish ones are approximants and don't sound like that at all.
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@gerald4013 how are the slender r's pronounced?
phr4nk3rd00d13 6 days ago
The song in the beginning of these docs, for the 6 seconds that you hear it lol, is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard. Does anyone know the name/artist of the song?
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@seamuspowers I was thinking exactly the same thing. There is very much a 'Scandinavian' sould to the accent of Irish Gaelic spoken in this documentary I have heard many nordic languages spoken, and so- despite the claim they are are not technically related...there is I agree, Seamus an uncanny auditory similarity between gaelic and Norwegian and/or other nordic languages.
grifrin 1 year ago
gaelic sounds Norse? I wonder if the two languages are related, because the accents when spoken sound very similar. But the written parts of both languages dont sound the same. However when spoken I bet an irish gaelic speaker could speak Norwegian or Swedish. Im irish and finnish and wish to learn gaelic and finnish but both languages are complex, I would need a tutor.
seamuspowers 2 years ago
Irish is not closely related to Norwegian or Swedish. English is actually much more closely related to those two languages. Irish is closely related to Welsh, Manx, Cornish, and Breton, but only distantly related to English and Norwegian.
purzheen 1 year ago
@purzheen Yes but the Irish language is the oldest is the third oldest languages in Europe, you do know that right?
mischa12 11 months ago
@mischa12 Languages have no age, they don't appear one day like that, they are evolutions of a preceding form of the language...
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@seamuspowers I was thinking exactly the same thing. There is very much a 'Scandinavian' sould to the accent of Irish Gaelic spoken in this documentary I have heard many nordic languages spoken, and so- despite the claim they are are not technically related...there is I agree, Seamus an uncanny auditory similarity between gaelic and Norwegian and/or other nordic languages.
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@seamuspowers I was thinking exactly the same thing. There is very much a 'Scandinavian' sould to the accent of Irish Gaelic spoken in this documentary I have heard many nordic languages spoken, and so- despite the claim they are are not technically related...there is I agree, Seamus an uncanny auditory similarity between gaelic and Norwegian and/or other nordic languages.
grifrin 1 year ago
@seamuspowers I was thinking exactly the same thing. There is very much a 'Scandinavian' sould to the accent of Irish Gaelic spoken in this documentary I have heard many nordic languages spoken, and so- despite the claim they are are not technically related...there is I agree, Seamus an uncanny auditory similarity between gaelic and Norwegian and/or other nordic languages.
grifrin 1 year ago
@grifrin lots of Vikings settled in Ireland, especially the West. So, its quite possible they influenced the accent/language
FuroraCeltica 1 year ago
what is the music from? is it original for the documentary?
pookie67 2 years ago
Tuile?? I think that's the Irish Gaelic of my surname Tully. This the language of my ancestors!!!
UilliamPolDeBrun 2 years ago
Is there another part to this documentary?
catequeener 2 years ago
Iontach suimiúil agus truamheileach.
Terry.
terrygrif 3 years ago