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minus-squarejan telilinkfedilinkEnglish13•5 months agoDamn I thought english was bad. How do you get neeve from niamh?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish32•5 months agoIrish spelling rules are actually very internally consistent, they just don’t use the Latin alphabet the same way that English does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_orthography
minus-squarejan telilinkfedilinkEnglish7•5 months agoOh I thought they meant irish as in irish english (the dialect, like how I speak australian english)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•5 months agoA lot of people think that Gaelic is what Irish actually is. Which they are two different languages
minus-squareReady! Player 31OPMlinkfedilinkEnglish16•5 months agoBecause Irish is literally a different language. You wouldn’t ask the same thing about French or Vietnamese or whatever.
minus-squarethemeatbridgelinkfedilinkEnglish7•5 months agoBecause “v” isn’t a letter in Irish, but it is a phoneme approximated by “mh” or “bh.”
Damn I thought english was bad. How do you get neeve from niamh?
Irish spelling rules are actually very internally consistent, they just don’t use the Latin alphabet the same way that English does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_orthography
Oh I thought they meant irish as in irish english (the dialect, like how I speak australian english)
A lot of people think that Gaelic is what Irish actually is. Which they are two different languages
Because Irish is literally a different language. You wouldn’t ask the same thing about French or Vietnamese or whatever.
Yeah I know lol, I was thinking irish english
Because “v” isn’t a letter in Irish, but it is a phoneme approximated by “mh” or “bh.”