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Countries

Countries
European Union, Ireland

Total No. Of Countries
2 13

National Language
Ireland

Second Language
Ireland

Speaking Continents
Europe

Minority Language
United Kingdom

Regulated By
Foras na Gaeilge

Interesting Facts
  • In Irish language, there are no exact words for "yes" or "no".
  • There are different set of numbers for counting humans and another set for counting non-humans in Irish Language.

Similar To
Scottish Gaelic and Welsh Languages

Derived From
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Alphabets
18 1

Phonology

How Many Vowels
5 2

How Many Consonants
13 3

Scripts
Latin

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
5 4

Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks 13

Greetings

Hello
Dia dhuit

Thank You
Go raibh maith agat

How Are You?
Conas atá tú ?

Good Night
Oíche mhaith

Good Evening
Tráthnóna maith duit

Good Afternoon
Tráthnóna maith duit

Good Morning
Dia dhuit ar maidin

Please
le do thoil

Sorry
Tá brón orm

Bye
Slán

I Love You
Is breá liom thú

Excuse Me
Gabh mo leithscéal

Dialects

Dialect 1
Connacht Irish

Where They Speak
Connacht

How Many People Speak
100,000.00 79

Dialect 2
Munster Irish

Where They Speak
Munster

How Many People Speak
150,000.00 77

Dialect 3
Ulster Irish

Where They Speak
Ulster

How Many People Speak
140,000.00 64

Total No. Of Dialects
4 4

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.79 million 81

Speaking Population
0.03 % 60

Native Speakers
0.14 million 88

Second Language Speakers
1.65 million 58

Native Name
Gaeilge (na hÉireann) / An Ghaeilge

Alternative Names
Erse, Gaeilge, Gaelic Irish

French Name
irlandais moyen

German Name
Mittelirisch

Pronunciation
[ˈɡeːlʲɟə]

Ethnicity
Irish people

History

Origin
c. 750

Language Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup
Celtic

Branch
Goidelic

Language Forms

Early Forms
Primitive Irish, Old Irish, Middle Irish, Classical Irish, Irish

Standard Forms
An Caighdeán Oifigiúil

Language Position
25 23

Signed Forms
Irish Sign Language

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
ga

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T
gle

ISO 639 2/B
gle

ISO 639 3
gle

ISO 639 6
gle

Glottocode
iris1253

Linguasphere
50-AAA

Types of Language

Language Type
Living

Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional

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Know Alphabets in Irish

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Irish Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Irish Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Irish. Irish phonology gives Irish vowels and Irish consonants. There are 5 vowels and 13 consonants in Irish language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Irish is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Irish language is given in detail in this section.

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All Irish countries

Want to explore all Irish countries? About Irish language serves you with all Irish Speaking Countries. Countries that use Irish as official language are called as Irish countries.

  • Countries that use Irish as their National Language are: Ireland.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Irish as second language are: Ireland.

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Learn Irish greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Irish Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Irish language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Irish language.Learn Irish greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Dia dhuit
  • Thank you: Go raibh maith agat
  • Good Morning: Dia dhuit ar maidin
  • Good Evening: Tráthnóna maith duit
  • Good Afternoon: Tráthnóna maith duit

All Irish Language Codes

Get to know all Irish language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Irish Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.

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