Consonants
Most dialects of Irish contain at a minimum the consonant phonemes shown in the following chart (see International Phonetic Alphabet for an explanation of the symbols). The consonant /h/ is neither broad nor slender.
| Labial | Coronal | Dorsal | Glottal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| broad | slender | broad | slender | slender | broad | |||
| Stop | pˠ | pʲ | t̪ˠ | tʲ | c | k | ||
| bˠ | bʲ | d̪ˠ | dʲ | ɟ | ɡ | |||
| Fricative/ Approximant |
fˠ | fʲ | sˠ | ʃ | ç | x | h | |
| w | vʲ | j | ɣ | |||||
| Nasal | mˠ | mʲ | n̪ˠ | nʲ | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Tap | ɾˠ | ɾʲ | ||||||
| Lateral | l̪ˠ | lʲ | ||||||
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