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Preferred term

gleIrish  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a small minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of the population. Irish enjoys constitutional status as the national and first official language of the Republic of Ireland. It is an official language of the European Union and an officially recognised minority language in Northern Ireland.

Entry terms

  • Irish language

ISO 639-1 code

  • ga

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • gle

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • gle

ISO 639-3 code

  • gle

Notation

  • gle

In other languages

  • Irlandais

    French

  • irlandais
  • Irisch

    German

  • Irische Sprache
  • irlandese

    Italian

  • Lingua irlandese
  • Portuguese

  • Língua irlandesa
  • irlandés

    Spanish

  • Idioma irlandés

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/gle

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