Scottish Gaelic phonology | Wikipedia audio article
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Scottish Gaelic phonology


00:01:10 1 History of the discipline
00:03:44 2 Vowels
00:04:11 2.1 Diphthongs
00:04:28 2.2 Orthography
00:05:03 2.2.1 Digraphs and trigraphs
00:05:52 3 Consonants
00:08:31 3.1 Phonetic variation
00:09:08 3.2 Velarised l
00:10:11 3.3 Aspiration
00:10:43 3.3.1 Preaspiration
00:11:57 3.4 Nasalisation
00:13:16 3.5 Lenition and spelling
00:14:33 4 Stress
00:14:49 5 Epenthesis
00:16:04 6 Elision
00:16:26 7 Tones
00:17:28 8 Morphophonology
00:17:38 8.1 Morphophonological variation



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This article is about the phonology of the Scottish Gaelic language.  There is no standard variety of Scottish Gaelic; although statements below are about all or most dialects, the north-western dialects (Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Northwest Highlands) are discussed more than others as they represent the majority of speakers.
Gaelic phonology is characterised by:

a phoneme inventory particularly rich in sonorant coronal phonemes (commonly nine in total)
a contrasting set of palatalised and non-palatalised consonants
strong initial word-stress and vowel reduction in unstressed syllables
The presence of preaspiration of stops in certain contexts
falling intonation in most types of sentences, including questions
lenition and extreme sandhi phenomenaDue to the geographic concentration of Gaelic speakers along the western seaboard with its numerous islands, Gaelic dialectologists tend to ascribe each island its own dialect. On the mainland, no clear dialect boundaries have been established to date but the main areas are generally assumed to be Argyllshire, Perthshire, Moidart/Ardnamurchan, Wester Ross and Sutherland.