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A Dialect of Donegal

Being the Speech of Meenawannia in the Parish of Glenties. Phonology and Texts

E C Quiggin author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:2nd Feb '12

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An attempt at a scientific description of a northern dialect of Irish, first published in 1906.

Originally published in 1906, this study by E. C. Quiggin was, as its author put it, 'the first serious attempt at a scientific description of a northern dialect of Irish'. A fascinating case study of the Irish language at the beginning of the twentieth century.Originally published in 1906, this study by E. C. Quiggin was, as its author put it, 'the first serious attempt at a scientific description of a northern dialect of Irish'. Quiggin maintained that collecting linguistic data from the people who were born before the famine was of immediate concern because their particular grasp of the vernacular would help shed much-needed light on the mysteries of Old and Middle Irish orthography. Drawn primarily from evidence of the speech found in a hamlet called Meenawannia near Donegal, this volume represents a fascinating case study of the Irish language at the beginning of the twentieth century.

ISBN: 9781107645530

Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm

Weight: 330g

258 pages