April 26th, 2024
After the birth of our daughter my wife and I wanted her to know both her Irish and American roots. My grilfriend is from County Wicklow, Ireland and was fluent in Gaelic as a child. It seemed like a good idea to introduce our daughter and myself to the language as well.
Gaiscioch being an Irish guild I thought I would create a simple pronunciation guilde to help our memeber with names and words that fit our theme and lore. This will not only help our members but also help me learn the language as well! So lets begin...
Consonants
Irish has most of the same consonants as English. Each of which has both broad and slender sounds, for example: Sláinte, a common toast, is pronounced "Slawn-cha". Notice the 's' is pronoucned just like it would in English. This is an example of a broad sound.
If we look at my Rogue's name in Rift: Sionn, pronounced "Sh-oonn" we see that the 's' is now pronounced like a 'sh'. This is a slender sound.
I am sure the question on all your minds now is, "Well, how do I know when a consonant is broad vs slender?" It is actually pretty easy...
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