f

The sixth letter of the Irish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Ḃ ḃ

dotted letters used chiefly in Gaelic type


A

The first letter of the Irish alphabet, written in the Latin script.


t

The seventeenth letter of the Irish alphabet, written in the Latin script.


b

The second letter of the Irish alphabet, written in the Latin script.


d

The fourth letter of the Irish alphabet, written in the Latin script.


c

The third letter of the Irish alphabet, written in the Latin script.


g

The seventh letter of the Irish alphabet, written in the Latin script.


u

The eighteenth letter of the Irish alphabet, written in the Latin script.


e

The fifth letter of the Irish alphabet, written in the Latin script.


L

The tenth letter of the Irish alphabet, written in the Latin script.


N

The twelfth letter of the Irish alphabet, written in the Latin script.


H

The eighth letter of the Irish alphabet, written in the Latin script.


P

The fourteenth letter of the Irish alphabet, written in the Latin script.


V

The nineteenth letter of the Irish alphabet, written in the Latin script.


R

The fifteenth letter of the Irish alphabet, written in the Latin script.


M

The eleventh letter of the Irish alphabet, written in the Latin script.


O

The thirteenth letter of the Irish alphabet, written in the Latin script.


S

The sixteenth letter of the Irish alphabet, written in the Latin script.


I

The ninth letter of the Irish alphabet, written in the Latin script.


í

The letter i with an acute accent, known as í fada (literally “long i”).


á

The letter a with an acute accent, called á fada (literally “long a”).


é

The letter e with an acute accent, called é fada (literally “long e”)


ó

The letter o with an acute accent, known as ó fada (literally “long o”).


ġ

The letter g with a ponc séimhithe (dot above), used primarily in Gaelic type; equivalent to the digraph gh in roman type.


ú

The letter u with an acute accent, known as ú fada (literally “long u”).


A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called síneadh fada (“long mark”) in Irish, and found on Á/á, É/é, Í/í, Ó/ó and Ú/ú. It is used to indicate a long vowel, but a vowel without the mark can also be a long vowel in some circumstances.


Ċ

The letter C with a ponc séimhithe (dot above), used primarily in Gaelic type; equivalent to the digraph Ch in roman type.


ċ

The letter c with a ponc séimhithe (dot above), used primarily in Gaelic type; equivalent to the digraph ch in roman type.


Ġ

The letter G with a ponc séimhithe (dot above), used primarily in Gaelic type; equivalent to the digraph Gh in roman type.


ḃ

The letter b with a ponc séimhithe (dot above), used primarily in Gaelic type; equivalent to the digraph bh in roman type.


Ḃ

The letter B with a ponc séimhithe (dot above), used primarily in Gaelic type; equivalent to the digraph Bh in roman type.


ḋ

The letter d with a ponc séimhithe (dot above), used primarily in Gaelic type; equivalent to the digraph dh in roman type.


Ḟ

The letter F with a ponc séimhithe (dot above), used primarily in Gaelic type; equivalent to the digraph Fh in roman type.


Ṗ

The letter P with a ponc séimhithe (dot above), used primarily in Gaelic type; equivalent to the digraph Ph in roman type.


ṗ

The letter p with a ponc séimhithe (dot above), used primarily in Gaelic type; equivalent to the digraph ph in roman type.


ṫ

The letter t with a ponc séimhithe (dot above), used primarily in Gaelic type; equivalent to the digraph th in roman type.


Ṁ

The letter M with a ponc séimhithe (dot above), used primarily in Gaelic type; equivalent to the digraph Mh in roman type.


ḟ

The letter f with a ponc séimhithe (dot above), used primarily in Gaelic type; equivalent to the digraph fh in roman type.


Ṫ

The letter T with a ponc séimhithe (dot above), used primarily in Gaelic type; equivalent to the digraph Th in roman type.


ṁ

The letter m with a ponc séimhithe (dot above), used primarily in Gaelic type; equivalent to the digraph mh in roman type.


Ṡ

The letter S with a ponc séimhithe (dot above), used primarily in Gaelic type; equivalent to the digraph Sh in roman type.


ṡ

The letter s with a ponc séimhithe (dot above), used primarily in Gaelic type; equivalent to the digraph sh in roman type.


Ḋ

The letter D with a ponc séimhithe (dot above), used primarily in Gaelic type; equivalent to the digraph Dh in roman type.


ẛ

The letter ſ (the long s) with a ponc séimhithe (dot above), used primarily in Gaelic type; equivalent to the digraph sh in roman type.


Originally used in Latin-language manuscripts to "cross out" a letter written mistakenly, hence the name punctum delens (literally “deleting dot”). In Old Irish and Middle Irish manuscripts, it came to be sometimes used over ⟨f⟩ and ⟨s⟩ to show that these letters had undergone lenition to ∅ and /h/ respectively; the letters were thus effectively "crossed out" to show that their sounds had been deleted or debuccalized. In later Middle Irish and early Modern Irish, the dot came to be used to indicate lenition of any consonant. (In older Irish, lenition of ⟨c p t⟩ was indicated by ⟨ch ph th⟩, and lenition of ⟨b d g m⟩ was not shown at all.)

A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called ponc séimhithe (“lenition dot”) in Irish, and found on Ḃ/ḃ, Ċ/ċ, Ḋ/ḋ, Ḟ/ḟ, Ġ/ġ, Ṁ/ṁ, Ṗ/ṗ, Ṡ/ṡ and Ṫ/ṫ. Generally used only in Gaelic script; very rare in Latin script.