Irish

Also known as Irish language, Gaeilge, Gaelic, Irish Gaelic

language native to Ireland

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Irish is a language that originated in and is native to Ireland. It matters because it represents an important part of Irish cultural and historical identity.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: modern language
Subclass of: Goidelic
Has part: Ulster Irish
Country: United Kingdom
Image: Flann for Érinn.png

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history of topic: history of the Irish language
indigenous to: County Donegal
has grammatical gender: feminine
language regulatory body: Foras na Gaeilge
Commons category: Irish language
topic's main category: Category:Irish language
Wikimedia language code: ga
native label: Gaeilge
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 141000
linguistic typology: fusional language
different from: Hiberno-English
category for films in this language: Category:Irish-language films
described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
P10369: Stephen Harper
short name: ирландский
P11012: pasta
has grammatical number: plural
has grammatical case: vocative case
has tense: past tense

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Encyclopedic overview

The first chapter of Mo Sgéal Féin, read by native Irish speaker Mairéad Uí Lionáird in the Muskerry Gaeltacht (Gaeltacht Mhúscraí)

Irish (Standard Irish: Gaeilge), also known as Irish Gaelic (Gaeilge na hÉireann) or simply Gaelic (/ˈɡeɪ.lɪk/ GAY-lik), is a Celtic language within the Indo-European language family native to the Irish people and indigenous to the island of Ireland. It was the first language of the majority of the population until the 19th century, when English gradually became dominant, particularly in the last decades of the century, in what is sometimes characterised as a result of linguistic imperialism.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Irish” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.