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:

2015年4月23日 · The sound system of Scottish Gaelic is remarkable for its large number of vowels and dipthongs with contrasts in both length and nasalization, as well as for its 'dual sequence' of stops and sonorants.

The University of Arizona's Scottish Gaelic Phonology and Phonetics group is dedicated to empirical research on the sound system of Scottish Gaelic. QUESTIONS? Please visit the Arizona Scottish Gaelic Phonology Project website at http://dingo.sbs.arizona.edu/gaelphon/ or contact us at [email protected] with your questions about ...

little Gaelic is spoken on the Scottish mainland, but it is more widely spoken in the Outer Hebrides, the group of islands to the North West of the Scottish mainland. A useful reference to the morphology, phonology, morphophonology and phonetics of Gaelic is Borgstr0m's (1940) detailed impressionistic account of several Gaelic dialects.

The University of Arizona's Scottish Gaelic Phonology and Phonetics group is dedicated to empirical research on the sound system of Scottish Gaelic. This website contains information about the project as well as links to resources on the language.

Andrew Carnie, Professor of Linguistics, is the principle investigator of the National Science Foundation funded Arizona Scottish Gaelic Phonology and Phonetics Project. He got his Ph.D. in 1995 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

2010年1月14日 · Since the syllabification of polysyllabic Gaelic words is the subject of some debate (c.f. Clements 1985, Bosch 1998, etc.), I shall discuss word-initial and word-medial clusters seperately. In word-initial C1C2 clusters, C2 is generally a member of the set /l, r, s/, and C1 is a sonorant or a stop (Wolters 1997).

This page links to pages about the phonology of Scottish Gaelic, and to technical definitions of linguistic terms about Phonology

For the phonology of the Manx Gaelic language, see Manx phonology. For assistance with IPA transcriptions of Scottish Gaelic for Wikipedia articles, see Help:IPA/Scottish Gaelic. See also: Scottish Gaelic orthography

2024年6月26日 · Understanding the difference between short and long vowels is crucial in Scottish Gaelic pronunciation. Broad and slender consonants have distinct sounds that can change the meaning of words. Bh and Mh can be pronounced as ‘v’ or ‘w’ depending on their position in the word.