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1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. I Introduction
5. 1. The Irish language today 3
6. 2. Who speaks Irish? 9
7. II The sound system of Irish
8. 1. Introduction 29
9. 2. Phonology 33
10. 3. Phonological studies 88
11. III The dialects of Irish
12. 1. Background 107
13. 2. Collecting data on Irish dialects 134
14. 3. Features of dialects 144
15. 4. The prosody of Irish 302
16. 5. Dialect reconstruction 328
17. 6. Further variation 374
18. 7. Conclusions 382
19. IV Appendixes
20. 1. History of Irish 387
21. 2. The orthography of Irish 392
22. 3. The transcription of Irish 405
23. 4. Samples of Spoken Irish 411
24. Glossary 431
25. References 443
26. Subject index 485
27. Language index 495
28. Sound files referred to in book 501
29. List of maps 507