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Old Irish, also called Old Gaelic (Old Irish: Goídelc, Ogham script: ᚌᚑᚔᚇᚓᚂᚉ; Irish: Sean-Ghaeilge; Scottish Gaelic: Seann-Ghàidhlig; Manx: Shenn Yernish or Shenn Ghaelg), is the oldest form of the Goidelic/Gaelic language for which there are extensive written texts.
People spoke Old Irish in Ireland, before the year 1000 AD. [1] Old Irish was a Goidelic language, and modern Goidelic languages like Irish and Scots Gaelic came from it. [1] People speaking Insular Celtic languages probably first came to Ireland at the start of the Iron Age, about 500 BC. [2]
Old Irish was the first written vernacular language north of the Alps, and it first appeared in the margins of Latin manuscripts as early as the 6th century. Old Irish can be divided into two periods: Early Old Irish, also called Archaic Irish (c. 7th century), and Old Irish (8th–9th century).
Mar 5, 2020 · The etymological study of Early Irish began in the Old Irish period (c. 700‒900 a.d.), under the influence of Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae, and, because of its flexible hermeneutic potential, it enjoyed great popularity in the middle and early modern periods.
- David Stifter
- 2020
Old Irish, also called Old Gaelic, is the oldest form of the Goidelic/Gaelic language for which there are extensive written texts. It was used from c. 600 to c. 900. The main contemporary texts are dated c. 700–850; by 900 the language had already transitioned into early Middle Irish.
All writing was Latin, archaic Irish or old Welsh between the fourth & sixth centuries AD. The Viking invasions of the ninth & tenth centuries led to the destruction of several early manuscripts. Gaelic script was known as ‘ An Cló Gaelach ‘ in Irish.
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Videos about the basics of Old Irish by Aaron Griffith and David Stifter. Old Irish Online at the University of Texas at Austin: a freely available online lessons of Old Irish among other early Indo-European language lessons there. Ancient Sound Changes and Old Irish Phonology.
