The Irish Language is a Goidelic language, a language branch from the Indo-European language family. Some people call it Irish Gaelic to not get confused with Gaelic, which is Scottish Gaelic. It's called 'Gaeilge' in Irish, and although its name (in English) come from where it's spoken (Ireland), it's a minority language! It has fewer than 100,000 speakers, and if you really want to make Irish survive, then I recommend that you learn Irish and then become an Irish teacher. What is the majority language, then? Yup, it's English! It is among the national languages of the EU. Which is very impressive for a language which has less than a million speakers. The fate of the language was influenced by the increasing power of the English state in Ireland. Elizabethan officials viewed the use of Irish unfavourably, as being a threat to all things English in Ireland. Its decline began under English rule in the 17th century. In the latter part of the 19th century...
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