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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

1m57s – not sure I fully agree with the claim "there are no labio-dental consonants in Irish" (obviously he's speaking as a Kerryman)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

like I get what he's saying, he's saying "Don't say /v/, say /β/ instead"

That's shurely better than the Saxoid thing of always saying /v/ and never /β/, but even de Bhaldraithe in The Irish of Cois Fhairrge Co. Galway documented /v/ in native speakers, especially next to unrounded vowels.

You could say: Munster uses /β/, Connacht uses /v/ , and Ulster uses /w/, but that's a rough model not accounting for individual variation, sub-diualect, and phonological environment (like whether it's next to a rounded or unrounded vowel)