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I'm Hannah

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I'm Hannah McLaughlin, or Nóra Nic Lochlainn.

I'm an engineer with an interest in linguistics. I live in Oxford, UK, and I love learning about phonetics and phonology. I'm particularly interested in Gaelic, though I have also been interested in Japanese. I love exploring connection and variation of language across the Gaelic world, particularly between Ulster and Scotland.

So much of the richness of spoken language is in the specific sounds and phrases that tie it to a particular place, and to the people who have lived there. I love learning local words and pronunciations, and seeing how these demonstrate both the unique history of a place, and its connection to other places, whether near or far.

I am currently working on digitising the Linguistic Atlas and Survey of Irish Dialects.

I have previously worked as a software engineer, writing Rust and Python for quantum computers, C++ for medical imaging diagnostics, and bare metal embedded C for surgical robots. The older articles on this website tend to be about software and related technology. Newer articles reflect my interest in languages.

I studied Information and Computer Engineering at the University of Cambridge.

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Send me an e-mail at h@mcla.ug