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Oct 8, 2013 · Irish (what Americans often call “Gaelic”) is the national and first official language of Ireland, the second being English. All students in public schools learn the language from childhood until they go to university, and it is the language of the government, meaning that the Constitution and other official documents are in Irish as well ...
Venetian, [7] [8] wider Venetian or Venetan [9] [10] ( łengua vèneta [ˈeŋɡwa ˈvɛneta] or vèneto [ˈvɛneto]) is a Romance language spoken natively in the northeast of Italy, [11] mostly in Veneto, where most of the five million inhabitants can understand it.
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May 3, 2024 · Apr. 23, 2024, 2:47 AM ET (BBC) Irish language: Row erupts over Belfast street signs. Irish language, a member of the Goidelic group of Celtic languages, spoken in Ireland. As one of the national languages of the Republic of Ireland, Irish is taught in the public schools and is required for certain civil-service posts.
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Apr 2, 2023 · The Venetian people had their own language for the well over a thousand years the Republic of Venice existed. The tree of Indo-European languages, with the Venetian language in the upper right. The Venetian language is a Romance language but it is closer to French than to modern Italian.
Oct 14, 2020 · Called Venexiàn, it is sometimes referred to as a dialect, but many linguists consider it a language in its own right. In his 1909 book Italian Hours, Henry James called Venexiàn “a delightful ...
Aug 23, 2020 · While the Irish language still exists, with tens of thousands of people in the country able to speak it, the vast majority of Irish people use English. So why is this? When did English become the most used language in Ireland?
The history of the Irish language begins with the period from the arrival of speakers of Celtic languages in Ireland to Ireland's earliest known form of Irish, Primitive Irish, which is found in Ogham inscriptions dating from the 3rd or 4th century AD. [1] After the conversion to Christianity in the 5th century, Old Irish begins to appear as ...
