The Irish Fada: How Accent Marks Change Meaning in Irish Gaelic
Look at a word like “sean” (old) and then at “séan” (to deny or to portend), and you might think the little line above…
Scottish Gaelic Lenition Explained: How Consonant Changes Alter Meaning
Every language has a set of rules that quietly change the way words sound depending on the sentence they are in. In Scottish Gaelic,…
Irish Gaelic Dialects: Munster, Connacht and Ulster Explained
When people talk about the Irish language, they often describe it as a single thing. Ask anyone in Dublin, Cork or Boston to “speak…