Language/Irish
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Facts about Irish
- Language code (ISO 639-3):
gle
- Autonyms (how to write "Irish" in Irish):
Gaeilge
- Other names for "Irish":
Erse, Gaeilge, Gaelic Irish, Irish Gaelic
- The Irish language is spoken in:
Ireland
Irish (Gaeilge in Standard Irish), sometimes controversially referred to as Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family, which is a part of the Indo-European language family.
Irish originated on the island of Ireland and was the population's first language until the late 18th century. Although English has been the first language of most residents of the island since the early 19th century, Irish is spoken as a first language in broad areas of counties Cork, Donegal, Galway, and Kerry, as well as smaller areas of counties Mayo, Meath, and Waterford. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_language
Irish Dictionaries
• BBC Northern Ireland: Northern Irish English vocabulary
• IrishSlang: dictionary of Irish slang & colloquial expressions
• Dialect vocabulary of Ulster [PDF] by John Kirk (1999)
• Cavanese, English as spoken in Cavan
• The provincialisms of Belfast and the surrounding districts pointed out and corrected, par David Patterson (1860)
• A glossary with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, county of Wexford, by Jacob Poole & annoted by William Barnes (1867)
• Nineteenth-century Irish English: a corpus-based linguistic and discursive analysis, by Daniela Cesiri (2002)