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Thank you for your comment! Is Irish her first language (as in mother tongue or bilingual)? I am sorry, I hope this is not impolite. But my boyfriend is Irish (mother tongue is Irish) and he told me that many Irish people do not speak Irish or not fluently and only learn it in school.

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I did a lot of research on the name and I fear that the only correct pronunciation is EE-ven. But it is often pronounced ay-veen in Ireland which doesn't follow Irish language rules. I would be happy to be corrected.

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There is a gigantic thread on this name in an Irish name forum in which Irish speakers spend a lot of time talking about the etymology of the name and coming to the conclusion that ay-veen is incorrect and that it stems from a mispronunciation.

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I wish it could correctly be pronounced ay-veen because I like the way it sounds but after doing lots of research I think it can't :(

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I don't think it is an accent-thing (as with Aisling, for example) because Aoife is EE-fa in all accents, Aoibhe is EE-va in all accents etc.

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But happy to be corrected. I have been trying to find out everything about this name.

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