Leugh...Sgrìobh Online literacy for fluent Gaelic speakers Read...Write
Introduction
 
Lessons
Spelling Rule
Apostrophe
Letter 'A'
Hyphenation
Suffixes
Prepositions
Old Way - New Way
Punctuation
Multi-syllable Words
Days of the Week
Surnames
Place Names
Borrowed Words
 
Exercises
Find the Error
Fill the Gaps
Spell This
 
 
Gaelic Orthography

Module 1

 ACCENTS

  ACCENTS  
 

GOC dispensed with the acute accent.
The grave accent alone is used to indicate lengthened vowels.
Recently the practice has been to show the accent on upper case (capital) vowels as well:

Ìle,
Dùn Èideann
Òl cupan teatha, mus fhalbh thu.

  
  On computer keyboard (Hold down Alt key and type the numbers)
Alt+133
 or Alt+0224 = à
Alt+138 or Alt+0232 = è
Alt+141 or Alt+0236 = ì
Alt+149 or Alt+0242 = ò
Alt+151 or Alt+0249 = ù

Alt+0192 = À
Alt+0200 = È
Alt+0204 = Ì
Alt+0210 = Ò
Alt+0217 = Ù

or in some programmes (e.g. Microsoft Word), press and release Ctrl and accent key (beside 1) followed by the letter