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minus-squareThomradelinkEnglish8•7 months agoI wonder if its an accent thing but I’ve allways heard Niamh as “Nee-uv” and not “Neev” and I know quite a few Niamhs.
minus-square@theRealBassistlinkEnglish11•7 months agoNee-uv is correct. The ‘i’ carries the stress, as indicated by the accent, so the ‘a’ turns into an unstressed vowel /ə/. To anyone else who has studied Irish, this is purposely a simplification.
minus-squareThomradelinkEnglish5•7 months agoAh Ok. I get ya. I wouldnt say I “studied” Irish despite doing it for 16+ years lol. I can read and write it, and speak it, but the actual intricacies of the phonetics is beyond me.
minus-square@theRealBassistlinkEnglish4•7 months agoI did an MA in Welsh and Celtic Studies at Aberystwyth. I did a few courses involving Old Irish and Scottish Gaelic, and while I enjoyed them I definitely can not speak any lol Ond, mae fy Nghymraeg ddim yn ofnadwy.
I wonder if its an accent thing but I’ve allways heard Niamh as “Nee-uv” and not “Neev” and I know quite a few Niamhs.
Nee-uv is correct. The ‘i’ carries the stress, as indicated by the accent, so the ‘a’ turns into an unstressed vowel /ə/.
To anyone else who has studied Irish, this is purposely a simplification.
Ah Ok. I get ya. I wouldnt say I “studied” Irish despite doing it for 16+ years lol. I can read and write it, and speak it, but the actual intricacies of the phonetics is beyond me.
I did an MA in Welsh and Celtic Studies at Aberystwyth.
I did a few courses involving Old Irish and Scottish Gaelic, and while I enjoyed them I definitely can not speak any lol
Ond, mae fy Nghymraeg ddim yn ofnadwy.