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Name:
Gaelic, Irish
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Irish; Gaelic (Irish); Irish Gaelic; Erse; Gaeilge; Gadhelisch
Spoken in:
USA, Ireland, Brazil, Canada, United Kingdom
Number of speakers:
260,000 in Ireland (1983 census). Population total all countries: 391,470
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
44000
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
355000
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
gle
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Language:
Middle Irish; Gadhelisch (mga)
Child Dialect Groups:
Munster-Leinster; Irish (Munster); Munster; Southern Irish (gle-mun)
Donegal; Irish (Donegal); Ulster; Northern Irish (gle-don)
Connacht; Western Irish (gle-con)
UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Map of Gaelic, Irish
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