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3 days ago · There are six living languages: the four continuously living languages Breton, Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh, and the two revived languages Cornish and Manx. All are minority languages in their respective countries, though there are continuing efforts at revitalisation.
6 days ago · As of the most recent data, approximately 1.7% of the Irish population (or around 73,000 people) speak Irish daily outside the education system, while around 40% claim some ability to communicate in the language.
2 days ago · Irish Travellers (Irish: an lucht siúil, meaning the walking people), also known as Pavees or Mincéirs (Shelta: Mincéirí), are a traditionally peripatetic indigenous ethno-cultural group originating in Ireland. They are predominantly English-speaking, though many also speak Shelta, a language of mixed English and Irish origin.
2 days ago · The Irish Constitution describes Irish as the "national language" and the "first official language", but English (the "second official language") is the dominant language. In the 2016 census, about 1.75 million people (40% of the population) said they were able to speak Irish but, of those, under 74,000 spoke it on a daily basis.
3 days ago · The top three languages spoken in Ireland are English, Irish Gaelic, and Polish. English is the most widely spoken language, followed by Irish Gaelic, spoken by a little over 40% of the population. Polish is the third most common language, spoken by over 3% of the population.
- Elias Flores
5 days ago · How many people speak English? As of 2020 there are 1.27 billion English speakers around the world. This makes it the most spoken language, ahead of Mandarin Chinese (1.12 billion speakers) and Hindi (637 million speakers).
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