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<blockquote data-quote="Leinster Fan" data-source="post: 962083" data-attributes="member: 76349"><p>Haha yeah, it is Irish. More or less everyone outside or Ireland seems to refer to it as Gaelic for whatever reason, I hate to see Irish people jump down throats over it though.</p><p></p><p>Also no expert but from what I know you're more or less on point with that summary of how Irish/Scots Gaelic/Welsh developed (and also Cornish and Manx). Not sure of the reasons but there's much more of a similarity between the Irish and Scottish languages than there is to the Welsh/Cornish. I did know why at some point but have forgotten, it either came from Ireland to Scotland or vice versa, might have been when the Celts took over from the Picts but that entire area of history is far from my strong point so I could be way off about everything.</p><p></p><p>There are native Irish speakers out there, at a guess I'd say somewhere in the 10,000s. I'd say the demographic skews heavily towards older people though. There are some areas, almost all on the west coast, where Irish is at least in theory the primary language, they've been diluted over the last few decades though, Irish is still used as a language there but you'd hear a fair bit of English as well. Conversely though, Irish is growing as a language in the cities, especially Dublin. Obviously no one lives entirely through Irish but a lot of people do make the effort to use it as much as possible. I'd say the number of native speakers is probably on the decline but the number of people who can actually speak Irish is probably on the rise. There are definitely parents out there who raise the kids through Irish, but it's very rare. I have seen people talking to young kids in Irish around the place but I'd say most people who want their kids to speak Irish do the simple thing and send them to a Gaelscoil (Irish language school), which are becoming ever more popular and between primary and secondary education have something like 60,000 people going to them across the country.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Leinster Fan, post: 962083, member: 76349"] Haha yeah, it is Irish. More or less everyone outside or Ireland seems to refer to it as Gaelic for whatever reason, I hate to see Irish people jump down throats over it though. Also no expert but from what I know you're more or less on point with that summary of how Irish/Scots Gaelic/Welsh developed (and also Cornish and Manx). Not sure of the reasons but there's much more of a similarity between the Irish and Scottish languages than there is to the Welsh/Cornish. I did know why at some point but have forgotten, it either came from Ireland to Scotland or vice versa, might have been when the Celts took over from the Picts but that entire area of history is far from my strong point so I could be way off about everything. There are native Irish speakers out there, at a guess I'd say somewhere in the 10,000s. I'd say the demographic skews heavily towards older people though. There are some areas, almost all on the west coast, where Irish is at least in theory the primary language, they've been diluted over the last few decades though, Irish is still used as a language there but you'd hear a fair bit of English as well. Conversely though, Irish is growing as a language in the cities, especially Dublin. Obviously no one lives entirely through Irish but a lot of people do make the effort to use it as much as possible. I'd say the number of native speakers is probably on the decline but the number of people who can actually speak Irish is probably on the rise. There are definitely parents out there who raise the kids through Irish, but it's very rare. I have seen people talking to young kids in Irish around the place but I'd say most people who want their kids to speak Irish do the simple thing and send them to a Gaelscoil (Irish language school), which are becoming ever more popular and between primary and secondary education have something like 60,000 people going to them across the country. [/QUOTE]
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