Velarized consonants, denoted in the IPA by a superscript ‹ ˠ›, are pronounced with the back of the tongue raised toward the velum, which happens to the /l/ in English pi ll in some accents, like RP and General American, and in all positions in Scottish English. ↑ Scottish Gaelic makes contrasts between velarized ('broad') and palatalized ('slender') consonants.Klevenhaus (2009) Bauer (2011) (both over-regional) If an IPA symbol is not in the table below, this indicates that the source uses the same symbol as above. The following table lists some of the variations commonly encountered. Most systems vary from pure IPA, particularly the systems used in Celtic Studies. Materials published elsewhere use somewhat different conventions from those used at Wikipedia. Primary stress (placed before the stressed syllable) for example uinneag Other symbols used in transcription of Scottish Gaelic pronunciation

M aighdean, gr eim, c oibhneil, oighre, c oilltean, br oinn Error: : text has italic markup ( help)īhean, sài bh, mhàthair, dei mhinn, là mhį iacail, iasg, c eud, d eug, s ìos, f ìon See Scottish Gaelic phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of Scottish Gaelic, and Scottish Gaelic orthography for the exact correspondence between sounds and letters in Scottish Gaelic.Įala, b eò, th eàrn, iolaire, p iuthar, sh iùbhlainn, grài dh The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Scottish Gaelic pronunciations in Wikipedia articles.

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