I know there's at least one or two Irish citizens on my flist... any chance any of you could take a gander at the name Giolla and give me some idea how it'd be pronounced? Yes, I know there are differences between modern and traditional/archaic for Scotland and Ireland and between the two countries, as well; it's modern Irish I'm curious about.
I keep thinking the 'g' is a soft-jay (like the French), and something tells me there's a funky dipthong in the -io- combination... but maybe that's just some distant memory of how it's said in the Scottish dialect. (I was raised knowing how to properly say the various family mottos, but those are all in a Scottish dialect. I can't tell you how Scottish/Irish pronounciation differs, only that I've been informed that they do. Which isn't much help when I'm trying to deduce the Irish pronounciation.)
Any help is much appreciated. Ah, the mysteries of languages! ...which reminds me, I have a chapter and a half of Mandarin to finish translating... Just what my brain needs, to decipher Mandarin while I've got Irish names bouncing in my head.
I keep thinking the 'g' is a soft-jay (like the French), and something tells me there's a funky dipthong in the -io- combination... but maybe that's just some distant memory of how it's said in the Scottish dialect. (I was raised knowing how to properly say the various family mottos, but those are all in a Scottish dialect. I can't tell you how Scottish/Irish pronounciation differs, only that I've been informed that they do. Which isn't much help when I'm trying to deduce the Irish pronounciation.)
Any help is much appreciated. Ah, the mysteries of languages! ...which reminds me, I have a chapter and a half of Mandarin to finish translating... Just what my brain needs, to decipher Mandarin while I've got Irish names bouncing in my head.