Appendix:Irish pronunciation

The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Irish-language pronunciations in Wiktionary entries.

See Irish phonology for detailed discussion of the phonology of Irish.

Comparison to other phonetic transcription schemes
Materials published elsewhere use somewhat different conventions from those used at Wiktionary. For example, it is a longstanding tradition to leave velarized ("broad") consonants unmarked and mark palatalized ("slender") consonants with the prime, although this is not standard IPA usage.

This section compares the IPA system used at Wiktionary(which is based on that used by Ailbhe Ní Chasaide in her description of Irish in the Handbook of the International Phonetic Association, ISBN 0-521-63751-1) with the system used in some other works.