Kerry Irish is spoken in the south west of Ireland in Co. Kerry.

Kerry Irish phonemic consonant inventory

The consonant phoneme inventory of Kerry Irish is given below (Ó Siadhail 1989, Ó Sé 2000). The Kerry Irish vowel system can be roughly described as /i,e,a,o,u/, each occurring in long and short form.

	Labial	Coronal	Dorsal	Glottal
Stop	pɣ pj	tˠ tj	kˠ kj
	bˠ bj	dˠ dj	ɡˠ ɡj
Fricative	fˠ fj	sˠ sj	xˠ xj	hˠ
	vˠ vj		ɣ ɣj
Nasal	mˠ mj	nˠ nj	ŋˠ ŋj
Liquid		lˠ lj
		rˠ rj

Tongue position during palatalization

The sample images below show the position of the tongue when palatalized vs. velarized consonants are pronounced.

Click on the links to listen to hear a Kerry speaker saying words containing those consonants.

Kerry labial consonants

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Learn about labial consonants

Kerry coronal consonants

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Learn about coronal consonants

Kerry dorsal consonants

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Learn about dorsal consonants

 

 Photos from Kerry