Luimneach, Ireland
The Luimneach Accent
Luimneach sits inside the Cork dialect area, which covers Cork city and county, Ireland. The nearest other area is East Irish, about 97km away.
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What people in Luimneach sound like
- A very wide, rising-and-falling intonation range.
- TH-stopping: “three things” as “tree tings”.
- “Ye” for a group of people.
- “Mineral” for a fizzy drink and “runners” for trainers.
These are the markers of the Cork accent as a whole. No survey claims every speaker in Luimneach has all of them — the full Cork profile sets out where the region varies.
Luimneach against North Wales
Luimneach is close enough to the North Wales area that the two get confused. These are the questions where the survey expects a different answer on each side.
| Question | Luimneach | North Wales |
|---|---|---|
| When you say “car” by itself, do you pronounce an R sound at the end? | the R at the end of “car” is pronounced | “car” ends in a vowel, with no R sound |
Dialect areas near Luimneach
Is your accent from Luimneach?
There is no way to answer that from a description. The test asks 29 questions about the words you use and how you say them, scores your answers against the Cork English profile and every other profile in the survey, and shows you where people who answer the way you do actually live.