I have found out that the Irish for "Rest in Peace" is as follows
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam
Can somebody give me a phonetic translation, want to say this at my Dads funeral.
Any help gratefully received

"Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam"

/ɛɾ(΄) jɛʃ dʲeː ə ənˠəm/

If you want a real phonetic transcription you'd want one of the professional linguistics

If you want to know how to say it out, well, Irish and English are not pronounced the same, but you could try:

'er yesh dyay ah ahnahm'

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Very sorry to hear about your dad. Something like, Air yesh Day guh row (rhyming with cow) ah on-im. 'go raibh' can be pronounced 'guh rev' depending where you're from.

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Where are you from, ursamajorman? Different people render phonetics differently, based on their own dialect of English. If we know roughly where you're from, we can give you a phonetic rendering based on how you pronounce English.

If you have an affinity for a particular part of Ireland, that would be useful too. There are a few words in this phrase that are pronounced differently in different parts of Ireland, as Saoirse pointed out.

Ideally, of course, we could get a recording for you, but I don't know what your time frame is.

I would render this phonetically as:

Air yesh Jay guh roh uh AN-um

But that's based on a West Coast USA accent in my English and an Ulster inclination in my Irish.

Redwolf

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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I forgot the 'go raibh' bit... You could say "g'rau' (as in having a row)



Anam not ainm! (And /ən΄ɪm΄/ sounds nicer to me than /əɲɪm΄/, in my opinion

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You're right. I'd just finished talking with someone about asking "what is your name," and had a brain cramp. I've corrected it in my original.

Redwolf

Lovely!

Redwolf

Thanks for all the help, the recording from Bríd Mhór will be very useful. I have a strong London accent but I do not think anybody will mind if it is not 100%. There will be people from all over Ireland at the funeral so for some it will be correct for others not. I am sure they will all give me a bit of slack on this one.

I'm sure people will be impressed.

It's not that people will think it incorrect only that it is a different dialect to their own. We recognise each others dialects as being equally correct.

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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