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hi and thanks! Yes, it's Irish. I'm trying to group the words ultimately based on their underlying pronunciation. While the spelling is more regular and 'phonetic' than English, it's hard to parse due to all the silent vowels the job of which is to show the quality of the consonant (buí and bí have different b sounds, for example).
Vowels: a, e, o, u, i, á, é, ó, ú, í, abh, ábh, adh, idh, idhe, agh, igh, ighe, amh, eamh, ith, bh, mh
Consonants: b, bh, c, ch, d, dh, f, fh, g, gh, h, j, l, ll, m, n, nn, p, ph, q, r, rr, s, sh, t, th, v, x, y, z, ibh, imh
[bh and mh re treated as consonants normally when at the start and middle (where they come from b and m and have a grammatical function) but I'm treating them as vowels as in a dictionary list they are mostly at the end ]
Due to all the possible combinations in a system set up to follow basic principles rather than strict absolute spelling so there will be on or two combos I might have missed, but I have the most of them
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