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In English (including Hiberno-English), the language is usually referred to as Irish, as well as Gaelic and Irish Gaelic. The term Irish Gaelic may be seen when English speakers discuss the relationship between the three Goidelic languages (Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx).
- Celtic Language Family
These are: the Goidelic languages (Irish and Scottish...
- Ulster Irish
Ulster Irish (endonym: Gaeilg Uladh, Standard Irish: Gaeilge...
- Irish Alphabet
Irish orthography is the set of conventions used to write...
- Status of The Irish Language
A more recent contributor to the decline of Irish in the...
- Irish Phonology
Irish phonology varies from dialect to dialect; there is no...
- Celtic Language Family
Even though the Abbey Theatre playwrights wrote in English (and indeed some disliked Irish) the Irish language affected them, as it did all Irish English speakers. The version of English spoken in Ireland, known as Hiberno-English bears similarities in some grammatical idioms with Irish.
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Middle Irish was spoken in Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man through the 12th century, when it began to evolve into modern Irish in Ireland, Scottish Gaelic in Scotland, and the Manx language in the Isle of Man. Today, Irish is recognized as the first official language of the Republic of Ireland and is officially recognized in the European ...
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The proportion of respondents in the 2011 census aged 3 and above who stated that they can speak Irish. The Irish language ( Irish: Gaeilge) is, since 2022, an official [1] language in Northern Ireland. The main dialect spoken there is Ulster Irish ( Gaeilge or Gaeilg Uladh ).
Irish, Irish Gaelic or Gaelic is a language spoken in Ireland and (less commonly) in Northern Ireland. Irish is a Gaelic and so it is similar to Scottish Gaelic and Manx Gaelic and less so to Breton , Cornish , and Welsh .
The Irish Wikipedia (Irish: Vicipéid na Gaeilge), also known as An Vicipéid, is the Irish-language version of Wikipedia, run by the Wikimedia Foundation and established in October 2003, with the first article being written in January 2004.
