Irish, also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Celtic language within the Indo-European language family, native to the Irish people and indigenous to the island of Ireland.
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ISO 639-3 Code Speaker CountDaily users of Irish outside the education system, Republic of Ireland, 2022 census (L1 native-speaker total not given as a single infobox figure). RegionRepublic of Ireland and Northern Ireland 1 Irish
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Source Wikipedia: Irish Language
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Ogham, Scripts Ogham is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to write the early Irish language in its orthodox inscriptions (4th to 6th centuries AD), and later the Old Irish language in its scholastic ogham tradition (6th to 9th centuries); it was also used much less frequently to record Pictish.
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1. Wikipedia: Irish Language
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Irish (Standard Irish: Gaeilge), also known as Irish Gaelic (Gaeilge na hEireann) or simply Gaelic, is a Celtic language within the Indo-European language family native to the Irish people and indigenous to the island of Ireland.
Infobox, ISO 639-3
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Infobox, Speakers (Total)
71,968
Infobox, Native to field
Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
In Family: Indo-European, Infobox, Language family
Top family: Indo-European; immediate parent branch: Goidelic (within Insular Celtic).
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