Irish Gaelic - The History of Gweedore PT. 3

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Gnéithe de Stair Ghaoth Dobhair. CUID 3

TOPICS:
An Tuile Mór
Sean Teach an Pobal
Derrybeg
Doire Beaga
An Sagart Mór
Na Doirí Beaga
Gaoth Dobhair
Gweedore
Great flood
Mass

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  • @gerald4013 how are the slender r's pronounced?

  • @mischa12 Languages have no age, they don't appear one day like that, they are evolutions of a preceding form of the language...

  • @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.

  • @mihanich its probably cause shes from ulster. irish in the north sounds more like scots gaelic

  • is it just me or she speaks with a terrible anglophone accent? isn't it proper to pronounce gaelic "r" rolled like in spanish?

  • @purzheen Yes but the Irish language is the oldest is the third oldest languages in Europe, you do know that right?

  • 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?

  • @grifrin lots of Vikings settled in Ireland, especially the West. So, its quite possible they influenced the accent/language

  • @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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