Orthography of Irish/Related Articles
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
- See also changes related to Orthography of Irish, or pages that link to Orthography of Irish or to this page or whose text contains "Orthography of Irish".
Parent topics
- Irish language [r]: A Goidelic Celtic language spoken mainly on the island of Ireland and in Canada. [e]
- Orthography [r]: Art or study of correct spelling and grammar according to established usage. [e]
- Writing system [r]: A set of signs used to represent a language, such as an alphabet, or a set of rules used to write a language, such as conventions of spelling and punctuation. [e]
- Alphabet [r]: Writing system in which symbols - single or multiple letters, such as <a> or <ch> - represent phonemes (significant 'sounds') of a language. [e]
Subtopics
- Phonology of Irish
- Ireland (state) [r]: Republic (population c. 4.2 million; capital Dublin) comprising about 85% of the Atlantic island of Ireland, west of Great Britain. [e]
- Celtic languages [r]: Branch of the Indo-European languages, sometimes believed to have once been spoken throughout Europe, now confined to the British Isles and Brittany. [e]
Linguistics
- Letter (alphabet) [r]: Symbol in an alphabetic script, usually denoting one or more phonemes; for example, in the English alphabet the letter <a> can represent the phoneme /æ/ as in mat and /eɪ/ as in mate. [e]
- Phoneme [r]: Theoretical unit of language that can distinguish words or syllables, such as /b/ versus /m/; often considered the smallest unit of language, but is a transcription convention rather than a true unit in most models of phonology since the 1960s. [e]
- Punctuation [r]: Add brief definition or description