Hiberno-English

An example of a man with a non-local Dublin accent (Dara Ó Briain)Problems playing this file? See .An example of a woman from Connacht with a supraregional Irish accent (Mary Robinson)Problems playing this file? See .An example of a man with a non-local (advanced) Dublin accent (Donal MacIntyre)Problems playing this file? See .Hiberno-English or Irish English (IrE), also formerly sometimes called Anglo-Irish, is the set of dialects of the English language native to the island of Ireland.

Alveolar consonantAlveolar consonants (; UK also ) are articulated with the tongue against or close to the superior alveolar ridge, so called because it contains the alveoli (the sockets) of the upper teeth. Alveolar consonants may be articulated with the tip of the tongue (the apical consonants), as in English, or with the flat of the tongue just above the tip (the "blade" of the tongue; called laminal consonants), as in French and Spanish. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) does not have separate symbols for the alveolar...

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