Countries
European Union, Ireland
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Ireland
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Ireland
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
United Kingdom
Hawaii
Regulated By
Foras na Gaeilge
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Scottish Gaelic and Welsh Languages
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
1828
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1320
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
510
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Dia dhuit
您好
Thank You
Go raibh maith agat
谢谢
How Are You?
Conas atá tú ?
你好吗？
Good Night
Oíche mhaith
晚安
Good Evening
Tráthnóna maith duit
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Tráthnóna maith duit
下午好
Good Morning
Dia dhuit ar maidin
早上好
Please
le do thoil
请
Sorry
Tá brón orm
遗憾
Bye
Slán
再见
I Love You
Is breá liom thú
我爱你
Excuse Me
Gabh mo leithscéal
原谅我
Dialect 1
Connacht Irish
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Connacht
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
100,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Munster Irish
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Munster
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
150,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ulster Irish
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Ulster
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
140,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
43
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.79 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.14 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.65 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Gaeilge (na hÉireann) / An Ghaeilge
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Erse, Gaeilge, Gaelic Irish
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
irlandais moyen
cantonais
German Name
Mittelirisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈɡeːlʲɟə]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Irish people
Han Chinese
Origin
c. 750
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Celtic
-
Branch
Goidelic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Primitive Irish, Old Irish, Middle Irish, Classical Irish, Irish
No early forms
Standard Forms
An Caighdeán Oifigiúil
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
251
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Irish Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
ga
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
gle
yue
ISO 639 2/B
gle
yue
ISO 639 3
gle
No data available
ISO 639 6
gle
yue
Glottocode
iris1253
cant1236
Linguasphere
50-AAA
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
-