n

nuin, the ash tree; the twelfth letter of the Gaelic alphabet at present in use. N, when immediately preceded by i sounds like n in English win; nn, when immediately preceded by i sounds like gn in French guigne or ng in English sing. When preceded and followed by broad vowels, nn has a particularly deep and broad sound, which has no equivalent in English. The monosyllable an, when the next word begins with c or g, sounds like ang, as, an cù, the dog. The letter n when aspirated is not followed by h in writing and a distinction between the plain and aspirated sounds is not generally male in Northern Gaelic, although there is an appreciable difference between the n in, nigh do chasan, wash your feet, which is plain and that in, nigh e a chasan, he washed his feet, which is aspirated, when they are correctly pronounced.

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