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3 days ago · This became the Yola language, which is not mutually comprehensible with Modern English. A second wave of the English language was brought to Ireland in the 16th-century Elizabethan Early Modern period, making that variety of English spoken in Ireland the oldest outside of Great Britain.
3 days ago · First millennium BC. First millennium AD. 1000–1500 AD. After 1500. By family. Constructed languages. See also. References. List of languages by first written account. This is a list of languages arranged by age of the oldest existing text recording a complete sentence in the language.
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Apr 5, 2024 · The Insular languages fall into two groups—Irish and British. Irish (often called Goidelic, from Old Irish Goídel “Irishman,” or Gaelic, from Gael, the modern form of the same word) was the only language spoken in Ireland in the 5th century, the time when historical knowledge of that island begins.
Apr 9, 2024 · Records in the Irish language date back to the ogham inscriptions, written in sets of strokes or notches, of the 5th century ce. The Latin alphabet began to be used shortly thereafter. Irish literature dates from the 8th century. See also ogham writing; Celtic languages; Celtic literature; Gaelic Revival; Irish Travellers.
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Mar 26, 2024 · The Irish literary renaissance was the flowering of Irish literary talent at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century that was closely allied with a strong political nationalism and a revival of interest in Ireland’s literary heritage.
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4 days ago · Entering the historical record with Ogham inscriptions, the earliest form of Irish, Primitive Irish, is preserved mostly on stone monuments and dates back to the 3rd or 4th century. Following this, Old Irish emerged, as evidenced by writings from the 6th century onwards. Middle Irish and Manuscripts.
3 days ago · The history of writing traces the development of writing systems [1] and how their use transformed and was transformed by different societies. The use of writing prefigures various social and psychological consequences associated with literacy and literary culture. With each historical invention of writing, true writing systems were preceded by ...
