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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

European Union, Ireland

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
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1.3 National Language

Ireland

1.4 Second Language

Ireland

1.5 Speaking Continents

Europe

1.6 Minority Language

United Kingdom

1.7 Regulated By

Foras na Gaeilge

1.8 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.

1.9 Similar To

Not Available

1.10 Derived From

Not Available

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

18
Rank: 1 (Overall)
Persian
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants

13
Rank: 3 (Overall)
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9 60

2.4 Scripts

Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

5
Rank: 4 (Overall)
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

36 weeks
Rank: 10 (Overall)
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3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

Dia dhuit

3.2 Thank You

Go raibh maith agat

3.3 How Are You?

Conas atá tú ?

3.4 Good Night

Oíche mhaith

3.5 Good Evening

Tráthnóna maith duit

3.6 Good Afternoon

Tráthnóna maith duit

3.7 Good Morning

Dia dhuit ar maidin

3.8 Please

le do thoil

3.9 Sorry

Tá brón orm

3.10 Bye

Slán

3.11 I Love You

Is breá liom thú

3.12 Excuse Me

Gabh mo leithscéal

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Connacht Irish

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Connacht

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Munster Irish

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Munster

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Ulster Irish

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Ulster

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

4
Rank: 4 (Overall)
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5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

1.79 million
Rank: 81 (Overall)
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0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

0.14 million
Rank: 88 (Overall)
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0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

1.65 million
Rank: 35 (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

Gaeilge (na hÉireann) / An Ghaeilge

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Erse, Gaeilge, Gaelic Irish

5.3.4 French Name

irlandais moyen

5.3.5 German Name

Mittelirisch

5.4 Pronunciation

[ˈɡeːlʲɟə]

5.5 Ethnicity

Irish people

6 History

6.1 Origin

c. 750

6.2 Language Family

Indo-European Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Celtic

6.2.2 Branch

Goidelic

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

Primitive Irish, Old Irish, Middle Irish, Classical Irish, Irish

6.3.2 Standard Forms

An Caighdeán Oifigiúil

6.3.3 Language Position

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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6.3.4 Signed Forms

Irish Sign Language

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

ga

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

gle

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

gle

7.3 ISO 639 3

gle

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

iris1253

7.6 Linguasphere

50-AAA

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Verb-Subject-Object

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Fusional

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.

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.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

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.