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 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). StatusWikipedia article on Irish: a currently spoken living language with an active native-speaker population; checked 2026-09-27. Attested From (Year) RegionRepublic of Ireland and Northern Ireland 2 Classification
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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. Glottolog: Irish (Glottolog languoid iris1253)
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2. Wikipedia: Irish Language
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Irish (Standard Irish: Gaeilge), also known as Irish Gaelic (Gaeilge na hÉireann) or (primarily outside Ireland) simply Gaelic ( GAY-lik), 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: states
Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
Infobox, Official language in
Republic of Ireland
In Family: Indo-European, Infobox, Language family
Top family: Indo-European; immediate parent branch: Goidelic (within Insular Celtic).
View the Source 3. Omniglot: Irish language, alphabet and pronunciation
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First written : 4th century AD
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