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The sound is actually somewhere in between a "th" sound and an Irish soft "r",
According to what I hear and to what has been transcribed by several linguists, it is simply [ð] or [θ], ie. just as the 2 English "th" sounds.
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As I understand it, that pronunciation is spreading to some other parts of the Gaeltachd and to second-language learners, because the Lewis dialect is used in a lot of teaching materials, but it is not universal.
I know and that's why I said it was Lewis
. Actually I think it is used in Harris and in Uist too.
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