Irish language
Irish Gaelic (Gaeilge nah Eireann) is a Celtic language spoken by 138,000 people as their mother tongue, and by another million people as a second language in Ireland, with 276,000 first language speakers worldwide. The language is called Gaelic, Irish Gaelic or Erse, but in Ireland it’s simply called Irish. Republic of Ireland Irish was the only language spoken in Ireland until the 17th century, but the dominance of the English language, and the effects of the potato famine and emigration in the 19th century led to a sharp decline of the population. Today, Irish is spoken as a mother tongue by a small minority of Ireland's population. The main concentrations of native Irish speakers are scattered along the west coast of Ireland. One of the Irish-speaking areas is called Gaeltacht. When the Republic of Ireland was established in 1922, Irish was adopted as the official language, along with English. It has since become a compulsory subject in government-funded schools. A relatively recent development is the spread of gaelscoileannathat is, schools in which Irish is the language of instruction. Irish is also used in broadcasting (Raidió na Gaeltachta), television (Teilifis na Gaeilge), newspapers, magazines, literature, theatre and the arts in general. Despite all these efforts, the future of the Irish language remains uncertain. Although the number of Irish speakers is increasing in urban areas due to Irish secondary education, young Gaeltachts tend to use the language less than their elders, and prefer to communicate in English. Northern Ireland Irish is an officially recognised minority language in Northern Ireland. It received official recognition in Northern Ireland for the first time in 1998 under the Good Friday Agreement. There is a cross-border organisation supporting the use of the language in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. European Union Irish became an official language of the European Union in 2005. There are three main dialects with considerable differences between them. It seems that the Irish spoken in urban areas, and the Gaeltacht spoken by older people, are drifting apart.Who speaks Irish?
Dialects of Irish
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