PUL translated the psalms into Cork Irish here: https://corkirish.wordpress.com/wp-cont ... /sailm.pdf

Psalms are very special to me. Studying this translation of the psalms is going to be the main way I study Irish for awhile here. It would really mean a lot to me if a fluent speaker could read some of the psalms with correct pronunciation and either send it to me or post it somewhere... And honestly, I think a lot of people would really appreciate it; there is not enough audio of Bible scripture read out in Irish available on the internet.

Seriously, it'd be so awesome! Obviously I wouldn't expect the whole thing, but any little bit would help!

Thanks a ton, y'all are the best.

I would be willing to do work on this, though I don't know how to upload audiophiles on this site. I think if I were to do it for you it would be better to make it public so that others would be able to comment on my pronunciation if I say something incorrectly.

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I'm an intermediate speaker of the Corca Dhuibhne dialect of Irish and also have knowledge on the old spelling
Soir gaċ síar, fé ḋeireaḋ thíar

You would forever be a legend in my eyes!!! Hopefully somebody will see this thread and let us know what our options are... Maybe you have to do it on some external website that allows you to host files.

EDIT: BTW I'd actually greatly appreciate ANY reading of PUL's bible translation, not just psalms.

Dia dhaoibh!

Do cheapainn gur cheart dhom a leithéid den chleachtadh so ' dhéanamh.
Ansan, i dtaobh is gur tugadh an dúshlán so fúm, tar éis machnaimh beag a dhéanamh dhom, do shíleas nárbh fholáir dom é ' fhreagairt.
Dheineas taifead ansan. Is é ceann de shalmaibh an athar Peadar a thoghas 'ná Sailm 22 (nó 23 mar a thugann na Giúdaigh air).

Éistidh leis, a chairde, agus tugaidh cabhar dom i dtreó go gcuirfinn mo chuid Gaelainne i gruinneas, más é bhúr dtoil é.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... -HRrPbh1nY

I thought that I should do something like this for practice. Here's Psalm 23 (22 in the Septuagint and the Vulgate).
I'd be very grateful if you could point out my mistakes and advise me how to improve.

Sailm 22 (dhá dheich a dó) [23]
1 Sailm ó Dháivid.
Is é an Tiarna do rialann me agus ní bheidh aon rud in easnamh orm.
2 In áit fhósaíochta atáim socair aige.
Do thóg sé me ar an uisce do shásaíonn.
3 Do chas sé m’anam thar n-ais.
Do stiúraigh sé me ar chosánaibh na fíoraontachta,
ar son a ainme féin.
4 Óir más i lár scamaill an bháis féin a shiúlód ní bheidh eagla orm roim dhrochní toisc thu ’ bheith
agam. Do shlat agus do bhachall,
sin iad a thug sólás dom.
5 Do ghléasais bórd dom os mo chómhair,
in aghaidh na muíntire atá ag cur orm.
D’úngais mo cheann le hola,
agus mo chailís shomheisciúil nách uasal í!
6 Agus beidh do thrócaire ’om leanúint,
gach aon lá dem shaol.
Agus gur im chónaí i dtigh an Tiarna ’ bhead an fhaid a leanfaidh laethanta.

Really good pronunciation! Really the only main thing that I have to mention that seemed to carry through frequently was your pronunciation of slender r. I notice that you tend to pronounce it with more of a fricative quality, which is one variation of the sound. It is however, relatively uncommon in Munster (where it tends to be closer to a tap or approximant, [ɾʲ] or [ɹ̝ʲ]), but is very common in Connamara (the symbol for this phoneme is [ʑ], which is close the the English [ʒ] as in 'measure', but pronounced farther forward in the mouth, closer to where other slender consonants would be articulated). Gréasaghas, if you don't mind my asking, are you by chance Polish or speak Polish? (I read one of your posts on a different forum mentioning that you have a variety of Polish books.) If so than the [ʑ] would be comparable to Polish 'ź' and [ʒ] (close to) Polish 'ż'.

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I'm an intermediate speaker of the Corca Dhuibhne dialect of Irish and also have knowledge on the old spelling
Soir gaċ síar, fé ḋeireaḋ thíar

Thank you very much for your feedback!
Yes, I'm a native Polish speaker. I found /ɾʲ/ to be much more difficult to produce consistently than all the other Irish sounds. I likely overpronounce it as something along the lines of [ɹ̝ʲ] when tap would be more appropriate because I try to avoid merging it with /ɾˠ/. Also the one person I talked with in Irish speaks the Connacht dialect and is rather particular about pronunciation (which is a very good thing).
To my ears all the (native) varieties of /ɾʲ/ I've heard are very distinct from [ʐ] and [ʑ], two sounds found in Polish, and from the English [ʒ] as well. (They are, of course, similar.)

Very cool. I've actually been trying to learn Polish (I think my head's about to split in two with all of the consonant and vowel morphemes). Native slender r has many many different pronunciations. I'd say that the tapped slender r is very peculiar, as it isn't quite like the palatalised tapped r of many other languages (e.g. like Russian рь). I notice that it tends to have a bit of a fricative quality, a bit like Czech ř but tapped. I once asked a friend what letter Irish slender r sounded like to him, and he responded with 'j'!

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I'm an intermediate speaker of the Corca Dhuibhne dialect of Irish and also have knowledge on the old spelling
Soir gaċ síar, fé ḋeireaḋ thíar

Here is my reading of the first psalm. You should probably turn the volume down on your computer, my mic picked it up loudly. Please be hyper-critical:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZA2GpM ... drive_link

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I'm an intermediate speaker of the Corca Dhuibhne dialect of Irish and also have knowledge on the old spelling
Soir gaċ síar, fé ḋeireaḋ thíar

Seamus, you need to go to your google drive and make that file available to share with everyone.

Apologies. Try it now

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I'm an intermediate speaker of the Corca Dhuibhne dialect of Irish and also have knowledge on the old spelling
Soir gaċ síar, fé ḋeireaḋ thíar