What Irish population speaks Gaelic?
Share this article: NEW Central Statistics Office figures have revealed that just over 4 per cent of the population of Ireland use the Irish language on a daily basis. The figures, based on the 2016 Census, show that 1,761,420 people – 39.8 per cent of the population – could speak Irish.
What is the most common language spoken in Ireland?
Irish
English
Ireland/Official languages
Where is Irish most spoken in Ireland?
Galway County
Where is Gaelic spoken? Galway County recorded the highest percentages of persons able to speak Irish at 49.0 percent, followed by Clare (45.9 percent), Cork County (44.9 percent) and Mayo (43.9 percent).
Where is Irish spoken the most?
As presented in Table 5.1, Dublin city and its suburbs had the largest absolute number of daily Irish speakers with 14,903 persons, up from 14,229 in 2011 and representing 20.2 per cent of all daily speakers. Cork, Galway and Limerick combined had 6,034 daily speakers accounting for 8.2 per cent of the total.
Where is Gaelic spoken in Ireland?
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….Irish language.
| Irish | |
|---|---|
| Ethnicity | Irish |
Where is Gaelic spoken today?
listen)), also known as Scots Gaelic and Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland….
| Scottish Gaelic | |
|---|---|
| Gàidhlig | |
| Pronunciation | [ˈkaːlɪkʲ] |
| Native to | United Kingdom, Canada |
| Region | Scotland; Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia |
Is Scottish Gaelic and Irish Gaelic the same?
Though both came from the same source, Scottish Gaelic and Irish Gaelic are very distinct from each other. Some northern Irish people can understand Scottish Gaelic and vice versa, but in other parts of the countries, the two Gaelics are not typically considered mutually intelligible.
Where is Gaelic spoken most?
Gaelic speakers are spread throughout Scotland. Of those who identified themselves as Gaelic speakers in the 2011 Census the council areas with the highest proportions able to speak Gaelic were found to be in Na h-Eileanan Siar (52\%), Highland (5\%) and Argyll & Bute (4\%).