Speakers and students of Gaelic from various parts of the province of Nova Scotia. Edwards (1991) conducted a study of three groups of Gaelic These monolinguals were comprised of a handful of women in their 80s and 90s “As late as 1976-1977, a few Gaelic monolinguals could still be found in rural Capeīreton. It’s a wonderful sound, and I wish the clip lasted longer.įound in a 21st-century Canadian grad-student thesis: There may come a time in a few centuries where a lot of the distinctive features of Indian English have been naturalized in the same way, so that phonological transfer from Indian languages (which now strikes Americans or Britons as signs of imperfect English learning) sounds to them like nothing more than deep regionalism. English spoken with a heavy non-native accent by an Irish speaker can still, pronunciation-wise, fall within my sense of “what English-speakers can sound like”. It is not native Hiberno-English phonology of any kind, but it has enough in common with heavily Irish-influenced varieties of Hiberno-English that, if I heard somebody speaking with this *accent* today using native-like syntax, I doubt I would take them for a non-native English speaker.
Sayers was not only a native Irish speaker but part of a generation which still contained Irish speakers who spoke English imperfectly (believe it or not the last documented monolingual Irish-speaker who spoke no English only died in 1998.) This is a recording of Peig Sayers speaking somewhat broken English.
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This puts into perspective what I really mean when I tell people that Indian English (which now does have full native speakers) is just as much a part of English as Irish or Welsh English, and is similar to them in having substrate effects from other languages. Thank you.Via Alex Foreman’s Facebook post, a YouTube clip (less than a minute long) of native Irish speaker Peig Sayers speaking English. I am an Amazon affiliate, and when you use those links to shop for anything at Amazon, although it costs you no more, I make a few cents. The books mentioned are linked to Amazon. Notes: This post first appeared on My Discover Ireland (which was called Info Ireland in 2009). Have you traveled the Blasket Islands? Were you braver than my husband and me, who did not venture out on the small boat and clamber up the slippery path to see ruins on the island? The two books proved to be a fine introduction to the unique memoir style of the Blaskets and to the harsh life on the islands. In a corner of the museum, we browsed among the many books and finally picked The Islandman and Peig: The Autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island to add to our travel librar y. Or perhaps the people were quite aware of their unique life and wanted to preserve it in words. Perhaps their isolation and time for contemplation led to the outbreak of literature here. The museum looks out on the fog-shrouded islands, and on a chilly day, we empathized with the Blasket Islanders and their tough lives, as we wandered among the exhibits. Once the scholars arrived, the people learned to write down their own language, or they told their old stories to others who could write them down, and soon an island of writers emerged. In the Blasket Islands, however, they told their own stories. In the early 20 th century, learned Englishmen and Germans took an interest in the ancient Irish language, and traveled to this coast and the islands off shore to record the speech before it disappeared.Playwright John Synge studied the language in the Aran Islands about the same time and based his plays on the people there. View of Blaskets from the Blasket Museum in Duncan The modern building houses a museum that provides a look at the islanders’ way of life, fishing and cutting peat from the few areas on the rock that supported any kind of soil.
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Near the pub we spotted a very modern building with plate glass windows facing out to sea.The piles of rocks called the Blasket Islands out there in the wild waves used to be home to a hard-working community of folks, but the last inhabitants left in the 1950’s.
The town is called Duncan, or Dunquin in the native language that holds sway here on the Dingle peninsula. When my husband and I traveled along the coast road of beautiful Dingle Peninsula in Ireland, past the beach where Ryan’s Daughter was filmed, we saw this sign, “Next Pub Boston.” On up the road, we saw the pub, with canned soup and toothpaste among the sundries behind the counter for anyone who did not want to drive all the way back to Dingle. Peig: The Autobiography of Peig Sayres of the Great Blasket Islandĭestination: Blasket Islands, Ireland Ireland road and stone cottage Sign along the road to Dunquin, Dingle Peninsula, Ireland.
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