Languages

Irish

Language

Citation Formats

General Reference

Language Atlas. "Irish." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/irish.

APA Style

Language Atlas. (n.d.). Irish. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/irish

BibTeX

@misc{languageatlas-irish,
  author = {Language Atlas},
  title = {Irish},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/irish},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

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).

Cross-Tradition Connections

In Family

Indo-European

Source Wikipedia: Irish Language

Sources

1. Wikipedia: Irish Language

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Quote, 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.

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1. Wikipedia: Irish Language

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