Corbmacc

Linguistics, brewing, early music and cybersecurity. Foghlaimeoir teanga na Gaeltachta; tháim ag foghlaim Gaeilinn na nDéise.

[Corbmacc @erisceres]

1/ Let’s talk about Irish (Gaelic) phonology. Firstly, what is phonology? Phonology is the most fundamental component when speaking meaningful language. Every language, dialect, etc. has its own phonology. Non-linguists generally use the term “accent”.

[MacDara Ó Conaola - Aran Island Singer @MacDaraMusic]

@RTEOne @ktrappe @rtenews I missed the programme. Did they mention that there are only about 18,000 native speakers left?

Or have native speakers and the Gaeltacht been forgotten about again. An inconvenient truth.

#GaeltachtSOS #Gaeilge #taboo

[Conchúr Ó Giollagáin @ConchurOG]

Your point is well made @DerekHolly7 Unfortunately, a version of the same twisted official logic also exists in Ireland of ignoring the social demise of native-speaking Irish communities so as to prepare for the post-Gaeltacht era. The promoting Irish to death syndrome! #Gaeilge

[Conchúr Ó Giollagáin @ConchurOG]

Scottish Languages Bill "will outlive the remaining #Gaelic-speaking communities. ... It represents an institutionalised vision, both unsympathetic towards community reality and nonchalant about the risks of terminal demise" #GaelicCrisis @TheScotsman https://t.co/JzBuPgYgmn

[Corbmacc @erisceres]

For anyone interested, Áine Uí Fhoghlú's 2004 UCC MPhil thesis "An briathar mí-rialta i nGaeluinn na nDéise" is now publicly accessible and well worth a read!
https://t.co/j1xIKjlGcp

[David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @ChronHib]

A book recommendation for the youngest generation of Old Irish learners:

𝓐𝓶 𝓘 𝓼𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓵? 𝓘𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓫𝓮𝓬-𝓼𝓪?

by Philipp Winterberg (Author) & Nadia Wichmann (Illustrator); translated by Francesco Felici and myself.

https://t.co/R69v7a9lcq

[David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @ChronHib]

I was thrilled to discover among the exhibition of Thurneysen's books a manuscript by Christian Ludwig Stern in which he had made a calligraphic facsimile plus transcription of the small Irish manuscript kept in Stockholm.
This MS contains one of the four copies of the poem...

[Will Lamb 🌱 @UilleamUan]

It’ll never be perfect, but it’s more or less the book that I wish I had had 32 years ago.

I hope that it illuminates more than it occludes and does service to this beautiful, fascinating language and the community who speak it 🙏

#gaelic #grammar #grateful

[Corbmacc @erisceres]

Scholars of Early Gaelic and Proto-Celtic, the publications of Kim McCone are being digitised and uploaded to his new website for free download. Quite a bit there already and looks like there's more to come!
https://t.co/Ivo8y9StH6

[Corbmacc @erisceres]

A letter from Rosa (Ní Dhochartaigh) Uí Néill, wife of Eoghan Ruadh Ó Néill, 1642, Louvain, Belgium. Published in Gilbert's ‘Affairs of Ireland’ vol 1, part 2 (1879). Transcription and translation work done by @silmeth.

[Ròs !! @nicmharcuis]

one comment re:the census: I think the biggest disservice we’ve done for Gaelic is pretending duolingo etc are markers of progress while the gàidhealtachd becomes more and more unlivable. it doesn’t matter if people learn a few phrases while the language loses its home and soul.

[David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @ChronHib]

New on the #OG_H_AM website.

Fascinating monthly blog by @AdeODubhghaill about the "Future of Digital Ogam": how can @unicode update its ogham block to facilitate its usage for research about the script? What can we learn from hieroglyphs for ogham?
https://t.co/S1juMRn4OD

[MacDara Ó Conaola - Aran Island Singer @MacDaraMusic]

How to pronounce the letter "r" in Irish (#Gaeilge)

@ForasnaGaeilge @GlornanGael @DerekHolly7 @SpraoiBAC @qub_gaeilge @GaeilgeToronto @CumannGaelach0L @UdarasnaG @RTERnaG @cnag @IrishBusinessNY
@CnaGaeilgeLA @CnaGAotearoa @CumannQub @CumannGaelach #Irish

https://t.co/cjlFnbEpSr

[David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @ChronHib]

...nasc "fastening, tie, spancel, ring; legal bond", the word that allegedly inspired Tolkien to the terms nazg "ring" & nazgûl "ring wraith" in the Black Language. In order to fulfil metrical requirements, I took the liberty of making the poem longer in lines than the original.

[Corbmacc @erisceres]

@azforeman ModIr. DEF NOM PL "na hObaithe" (the ⟨h⟩ here being a consequence of Irish initial mutation rather than being inherited from "Hobbytta" or the likes)

[Corbmacc @erisceres]

@azforeman On reflection, I think maybe the result would be closer to something like: OE "Hobbytta" > OIr. "Opaidea" > ClasIr. "Obaidhe" > ModIr. "Obaí".

[David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @ChronHib]

I am 𝓿𝓮𝓻𝔂 happy to announce that the revised version 2 of my little exercise about the "Rise of Gemination in Celtic" (now just over 40,000 words) has been published open access at: https://t.co/ZTXQyPygWE.
I sincerely thank my formal peer-reviewers @MJKue @AndersRJorg...
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[Tuairisc @tuairiscnuacht]

‘Tógadh le Gaeilge mé agus níl mórán Gaeilgeoirí fágtha anseo anois’

[Tuairisc @tuairiscnuacht]

FÍSEÁN: ‘Tógadh le Gaeilge mé agus níl mórán Gaeilgeoirí fágtha anseo anois’ via @tuairiscnuacht https://t.co/Q7mtcaWjMZ