Native Irish Speakers
You will get to know second language speakers of Irish language as well as native Irish Speakers under how many people speak Irish language. There is an estimate that there are almost 0.14 million native speakers of Irish language. Some languages have relatively large populations of native speakers and on other hand some languages have small population of native speakers. 1.65 million population speak Irish as second language where Irish is not the native language of the speaker. The number of second language speakers mentioned in how many people speak Irish are those whose native language is minority language of country in which they live. They learn the second language because it is official language of the country where they reside.
Native name of Irish
How many people speak Irish serves you with native name of Irish language. The native name of Irish is Gaeilge (na hÉireann) / An Ghaeilge. Native names are the local names for the languages. The native names of the languages are used by the native speakers of that language. The alternative names of Irish are Erse, Gaeilge, Gaelic Irish. The German and French names for Irish language is as follows:
- French Name for Irish: irlandais moyen.
- German Name for Irish: Mittelirisch.
In some applications, instead of using language names they use language codes, check out the language code of Irish on
Irish Language Codes.