Dialect: Dialect
In Irish, there are three main dialects, with certain grammatical and lexical variations between the dialects. Words or grammatical features in the treebank which were judged to belong to a particular dialect were marked with the Dialect feature.
Connaught : Connaught dialect
The Connaught dialect is the variety of Irish spoken mostly in the province of Connaught in the west of Ireland.
Examples
- Caidé (standard: Cad é) “What is it”
Munster : Munster dialect
The Munster dialect is the variety of Irish spoken mostly in the province of Munster in the south of Ireland. Most of the instances of dialect variation in the treebank are of Munster variety.
Examples
- Dhein sé (standard: rinne) “He did”
- so (standard: seo) “this”
- san (standard: sin) “that”
Ulster : Ulster dialect
The Ulster dialect is the variety of Irish spoken mostly in the province of Ulster in the north of Ireland.
Examples
- domhsa (standard: dom) “for me”
- fá (standard: faoi) “under”
- cha (standard: ní) negation
Treebank Statistics (UD_Irish)
This feature is language-specific.
It occurs with 2 different values: Munster, Ulster.
29 tokens (0%) have a non-empty value of Dialect.
12 types (0%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Dialect.
11 lemmas (0%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Dialect.
The feature is used with 2 part-of-speech tags: ga-pos/X (28; 0% instances), ga-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances).
X
28 ga-pos/X tokens (19% of all X tokens) have a non-empty value of Dialect.
The most frequent other feature values with which X and Dialect co-occurred: Abbr=EMPTY (28; 100%), PronType=Dem (17; 61%).
X tokens may have the following values of Dialect:
Munster(23; 82% of non-emptyDialect): san, so, age, dein, fachta, chuireas, deineadhUlster(5; 18% of non-emptyDialect): fá, Caidé, achan, cha
Dialect seems to be lexical feature of X. 100% lemmas (10) occur only with one value of Dialect.
VERB
1 ga-pos/VERB tokens (0% of all VERB tokens) have a non-empty value of Dialect.
The most frequent other feature values with which VERB and Dialect co-occurred: Voice=EMPTY (1; 100%), Mood=Ind (1; 100%), Form=Len (1; 100%), Tense=Past (1; 100%).
VERB tokens may have the following values of Dialect:
Munster(1; 100% of non-emptyDialect): Dhein
Relations with Agreement in Dialect
The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Dialect:
X –[obj]–> X (1; 100%),
X –[conj]–> X (1; 100%).
Dialect in other languages: [ga]