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Celtic Languages

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.

Facts
ISO 639-3 Code
gle 1
Speaker Count
71,968 1
Daily users of Irish outside the education system, Republic of Ireland, 2022 census (L1 native-speaker total not given as a single infobox figure).
Region
Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland 1
Irish
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In Family

Source Wikipedia: Irish Language

Written In

Latin Script, Scripts
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.

Sources
1. Wikipedia: Irish Language
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  • Lead section
    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
    gle
  • 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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