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	Irish language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Irish is given recognition by the Constitution of Ireland as the first official language of the Republic of Ireland (with English being a second official language), despite the limited distribution of fluency among the population of that country.
		Munster Irish is spoken in the GaeltachtaÃ of Kerry ( Contae ChiarraÃ), Muskerry ( MÃºscraÃ), Cape Clear ( OileÃ¡n ClÃ©ire) in the western part of County Cork ( Contae ChorcaÃ), and the tiny pocket of Irish-speakers in An Rinn near Dungarvan ( DÃºn GarbhÃ¡in) in County Waterford ( Contae Phort LÃ¡irge).
		This dialect is essentially the same as that in Gweedore ( Gaoth Dobhair = Inlet of Streaming Water), the same dialect used by native speaker Enya ( Eithne) and her siblings in Clannad ( Clann as Dobhar = Family from the Water).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irish_language (5167 words)

	Irish language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Irish ( Gaeilge na hÉireann) is a Goidelic language spoken in Ireland.
		Munster Irish is spoken in the Gaeltachtaí of Kerry (Ciarraí), Coolea (Cúil Aodha) in the western part of County Cork (Contae Chorcaí), and the tiny pocket of Irish-speakers in An Rinn near Dungarvan (Dún Garbháin) in County Waterford (Contae Phort Láirge).
		This dialect is essentially the same as that in Gweedore (Gaoth Dobhair), the same dialect used by native speaker Enya and her sibblings in Clannad.
	www.indexlistus.de /keyword/Old_Irish_language.php (3153 words)

	Irish language - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Munster Irish is spoken in the GaeltachtaÃ of Kerry ( CiarraÃ), Muskerry ( MÃºscraÃ) in the western part of County Cork ( Contae ChorcaÃ), and the tiny pocket of Irish-speakers in An Rinn near Dungarvan ( DÃºn GarbhÃ¡in) in County Waterford ( Contae Phort LÃ¡irge).
		The remnants of the Irish of Tourmakeady ( Tuar Mhic Ãadaigh) in southern Mayo and Joyce Country ( DÃºthaigh Sheoige) are considered the living Irish dialects closest to Middle Irish.
		This dialect is essentially the same as that in Gweedore ( Gaoth Dobhair), the same dialect used by native speaker Enya and her siblings in Clannad.
	www.free-definition.com /Irish-language.html (3734 words)

	Irish language - Art History Online Reference and Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Irish ( Gaeilge in Irish) is a Goidelic language spoken in Ireland and in small communities in Canada and Argentina.
		Irish is constitutionally recognised as the first official language of the Republic of Ireland, and has recently received a degree of formal recognition in Northern Ireland, under the Good Friday Agreement alongside the varieties of Lowland Scots spoken in Northern Ireland.
		This dialect is essentially the same as that in Gweedore ( Gaoth Dobhair =Windy Water), the same dialect used by native speaker Enya ( Eithne) and her siblings in Clannad ( Clann as Dobhar = Family from the Water).
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Irish_language (3858 words)

	Irish language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Irish has recently received a degree of formal recognition in Northern Ireland, under the Good Friday Agreement alongside a small minority language called Ulster Scots (though some critics have pointed out that Ulster Scots is not a language in its own right but simply a dialect of Lowland Scots).
		Munster Irish is spoken in the Gaeltachtaí of Kerry (Ciarraí), Coolea (Cúil Aodha) in the western part of County Cork (Contae Chorcaí), and the tiny pocket of Irish-speakers near Dungarvan (Dún Garbháin) in County Waterford (Contae Phort Láirge).
		Connacht Irish is, for all the practical purposes, identical with Connemara-Aran Irish, with the exception of the very threatened dialect spoken in the northern part of County Mayo (Maigh Eo).
	www.informationquickfind.com /i/ir/irish_language.html (3665 words)

	Irish language - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Compulsory Irish in schools remains a political shibboleth, with most politicians reluctant to raise the subject for fear of appearing unpatriotic.
		The Irish language is a minority language in Northern Ireland, known in Irish as Tuaisceart Éireann or na sé chontae (the six counties).
		In March 2005, the Irish language TV service TG4 began broadcasting from the Divis transmitter near Belfast, as a result of agreement between the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Northern Ireland Office.
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/Irish_language (4367 words)

	Irish language
		The alphabet employed today for Irish can be called a variant or a derivative of the Roman alphabet that took shape about the 8th cent.
		Native speakers of Irish are now concentrated in the western counties of Ireland.
		The government of Ireland is trying, thus far unsuccessfully, to revive Irish as the primary language of the country; it is an official language, and the study of Irish is required in preparatory schools.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/society/A0825484.html (250 words)

	Linguistics 201: The Dialects of American English
		Because of the long history of dialect creation in the English speaking areas of Great Britain, there are more dialects of English in Britain than in America, Canada, and Australia combined.
		The upper class southern dialects and the dialects of the coastal southern areas (where few native Americans remained) were influenced by the English spoken by West Africans.
		The true Scottish and Irish people were Celts who spoke Scots-Gaelic or its close relative Irish-Gaelic and most did not adopt English until the 18th or 19th century.
	pandora.cii.wwu.edu /vajda/ling201/test3materials/AmericanDialects.htm (2286 words)

	Dialect map of American English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Three things are needed for a new dialect to develop: a group of people living in close proximity to each other; this group living in isolation (either geographically or socially) from other groups; and the passage of time.
		Also, teenagers enjoy creating their own dialects that they can use to quickly determine who is or is not part of the "in crowd" and as a "secret language" in front of their parents.
		This dialect region matches the borders of the Confederate states that seceded during the "Confederate War" and is still a culturally distinct region of the United States.
	www.geocities.com /Broadway/1906/dialects.html (3848 words)

	Articles - Irish dialects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		One of the ways the dialects vary from each other is in their lexicon.
		Some examples of lexemes that vary across the dialects of Irish are shown in the chart below, where U = Ulster, C = Connacht, M = Munster, N = Ulster and northern Connacht, S = Munster and southern Connacht.
		All other important dialectal differences in the syntax relate to the use of the copula.
	www.free-biz.org /articles/Irish_dialects (1295 words)

	Irish Gaelic dialects
		There is a tendency to regard Munster Irish peculiarities as "standard" Irish, at least it seems to me that Munster has had a tremendous impact upon learners' Irish.
		The most important of Connacht dialects are those of Connemara an the Aran Islands.
		The initial mutations are very similar to those of standard Irish, but sa (= " anns an " of Scottish Gaelic) does not lenite - it eclipses: sa mbaile instead of sa bhaile.
	www.smo.uhi.ac.uk /gaeilge/gramadach/canuinti.html (817 words)

	Articles - Irish language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The numerically and socially strongest GaeltachtaÃ are those of Connemara and TÃr Chonaill, in which a significant proportion of residents use Irish as a community language and in which children often speak the language among each other.
		Ulster Scots, promoted by some loyalists, was, in turn, ridiculed by nationalists as 'a DIY language for Orangemen' - however, according to recent statistics, there is no significant difference between the number of Catholic and Protestant speakers of Ulster Scots in Northern Ireland (see Ulster Scots language).
		The UK government has ratified the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in respect to Irish in Northern Ireland.
	www.free-biz.org /articles/Irish_language (5014 words)

	Gaelic - language.com.au - Gaelic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Irish Gaelic is the language spoken in rural parts of Ireland and such cities as Galway, Cork, and Donegal.
		Scottish Gaelic is the dialect spoken in rural parts of Scotland.
		This beginning-level course features 36 lessons in Irish Gaelic spoken by natives of County Galway on the cassettes.
	www.language.com.au /gaelic.html (431 words)

	School of Celtic Studies - Catalogue E: Irish Language
		Morphology of the dialect of Cois Fhairrge, Co. Galway; commentary in Irish
		Phonetics and grammar of the dialect of Teelin, Co. Donegal; commentary in Irish
		Studies in the vocabulary and idiom of the Irish of the Déise, Co.
	www.celt.dias.ie /publications/cat/cat_e.html (791 words)

	Centre for Language and Communication Studies, Trinity College Dublin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The aim is to provide an analysis Irish prosody, providing coverage of the four main dialects of Donegal, Mayo, Connemara and Kerry.
		The study will enhance our understanding of dialect divergence, and provide insights into the historic evolution of their striking prosodic differences.
		It will further provide a basis for reconsidering the posited influences of Irish prosody on dialects of English, as well as possible influences in the other direction.
	www.tcd.ie /CLCS/phonetics/projects/prosody.html (275 words)

	whoohoo.co.uk - The British Dialect Translator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		T'Yorksher people are also given eur mention with this champion translator.
		Add your own words to any of the dialect databases.
		It is through your additions that the translators improve in quality.
	www.whoohoo.co.uk (470 words)

	Yamada Language Center: Gaeilge (Irish Gaelic) Language Guide
		An Teanga Mharthanach - Where to find Irish classes in your area.
		Comparison of the Scottish and Irish Gaelic dialects.
		This page is maintained by the Yamada Language Center at the University of Oregon.
	babel.uoregon.edu /yamada/guides/irish.html (82 words)

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