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Countries
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Countries
European Union, Ireland 0

Total No. Of Countries
2 13

National Language
Ireland 0

Second Language
Ireland 0

Speaking Continents
Europe 0

Minority Language
United Kingdom 0

Regulated By
Foras na Gaeilge 0

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.
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Similar To
Not Available 0

Derived From
Not Available 0

Alphabets
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Alphabets in
Irish-Alphabets.jpg#200 0

Alphabets
18 1

Phonology
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How Many Vowels
5 2

How Many Consonants
13 3

Scripts
Latin 0

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal 0

Hard to Learn
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Language Levels
5 4

Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks 10

Greetings
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Hello
Dia dhuit 0

Thank You
Go raibh maith agat 0

How Are You?
Conas atá tú ? 0

Good Night
Oíche mhaith 0

Good Evening
Tráthnóna maith duit 0

Good Afternoon
Tráthnóna maith duit 0

Good Morning
Dia dhuit ar maidin 0

Please
le do thoil 0

Sorry
Tá brón orm 0

Bye
Slán 0

I Love You
Is breá liom thú 0

Excuse Me
Gabh mo leithscéal 0

Dialects
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Dialect 1
Connacht Irish 0

Where They Speak
Connacht 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Dialect 2
Munster Irish 0

Where They Speak
Munster 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Dialect 3
Ulster Irish 0

Where They Speak
Ulster 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Total No. Of Dialects
4 4

How Many People Speak
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How Many People Speak?
1.79 million 81

Speaking Population
Not Available 0

Native Speakers
0.14 million 88

Second Language Speakers
1.65 million 35

Native Name
Gaeilge (na hÉireann) / An Ghaeilge 0

Alternative Names
Erse, Gaeilge, Gaelic Irish 0

French Name
irlandais moyen 0

German Name
Mittelirisch 0

Pronunciation
[ˈɡeːlʲɟə] 0

Ethnicity
Irish people 0

History
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Origin
c. 750 0

Language Family
Indo-European Family 0

Subgroup
Celtic 0

Branch
Goidelic 0

Language Forms
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Early Forms
Primitive Irish, Old Irish, Middle Irish, Classical Irish, Irish 0

Standard Forms
An Caighdeán Oifigiúil 0

Language Position
Not Available 0

Signed Forms
Irish Sign Language 0

Scope
Individual 0

Code
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ISO 639 1
ga 0

ISO 639 2
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ISO 639 2/T
gle 0

ISO 639 2/B
gle 0

ISO 639 3
gle 0

ISO 639 6
Not Available 0

Glottocode
iris1253 0

Linguasphere
50-AAA 0

Types of Language
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Language Type
Living 0

Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object 0

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional 0

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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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