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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 <t> or <ch> - represent phonemes (significant 'sounds') of a language. [e]
Subtopics
- Ogam script [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Latin alphabet [r]: Most widely used alphabet, the standard script of most languages that originated in Europe, where it developed in ancient Rome before 600 BC from the Etruscan alphabet (in turn derived from the Greek alphabet). [e]
Other related topics
- 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
- Phonology of Irish
- 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
