(CO): Pronunciation of "leabhair"

aireachtaigh · **Posted:** Wed 08 Feb 2017 9:42 pm

Have you ever whistled from the tip of your tongue? The slender R can be like that.

Labhrás · **Joined:** Sat 03 May 2014 4:01 pm **Posts:** 1968

Boz_Netterville wrote:

I will say, I listened to the pronunciation that was suggested here: https://forvo.com/word/leabhair/ by BridEllis and it almost seems to me that the starting consonant sounds more like a 'g' than an 'l'.

A slender (palatalized) l in IPA [l̠ʲ] or [ʎ̟] or in usual Irish phonetic transcriptions [L′]

But a g?
Perhaps thats why the Italians spell a similar sound "gl" as in "gli" [ʎi]

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