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The vowel /əː/ ao in Gaelic dialects
2018
Papers in Historical Phonology
This paper examines the development of the Old Irish diphthongs */ai/, */oi/, */ui/ in later varieties of the Gaelic languages. These are generally accepted to have merged as a single phoneme by the end of the Old Irish period (c. 900). In all modern varieties the regular reflex of this phoneme is a long monophthong, represented orthographically as <ao>. There are three main developments: (a) in southern Irish <ao> has merged with /eː/ and/or /iː/; (b) in southern Scottish and Manx varieties
doi:10.2218/pihph.3.2018.2882
fatcat:gnl25sbok5alhflopo4j4pnbhq