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 pure nasal vowels, the passage to the nose is much more open than in the production of twang.

17. Every consonant in Irish has, at least, two distinct natural sounds—the one broad, the other slender. An Irish consonant gets its broad sound whenever it immediately precedes or follows a (broad) vowel in the same word. An Irish consonant