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[129] [130] 6,000 people (0.3%) in Northern Ireland claim to use Irish as their main home language according to the 2021 UK Census with 71,900 people being able to speak Irish (circa 4% of population) and 228,600 people overall in the province (12.4%) having some knowledge of the language. It is the second most spoken language in Northern Ireland.
The dialect of English spoken in Northern Ireland shows influence from the lowland Scots language. [12] There are supposedly some minute differences in pronunciation between Protestants and Catholics, the best known of which is the name of the letter h, which Protestants tend to pronounce as "aitch", as in British English, and Catholics tend to pronounce as "haitch", as in Hiberno-English.
English is by far the most commonly spoken language in Northern Ireland. Two regional languages of Northern Ireland, Irish and Ulster Scots, are protected under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. Several other languages are spoken by immigrants to Northern Ireland, the most common of which is Polish.
As in other parts of Ireland, Irish was the main language in the region of present-day Northern Ireland for most of its recorded history [citation needed].The historic influence of the Irish language in Northern Ireland can be seen in many place names, for example the name of Belfast first appears in the year 668, and the Lagan even earlier ("Logia", Ptolemy's Geography 2,2,8).
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In the Republic of Ireland, under the Constitution of Ireland, both languages have official status, with Irish being the national and first official language. [3] In Northern Ireland, English is the primary language for 95% of the population, and de facto official language, while Irish is recognised as an official language and Ulster Scots is ...
The main aim of the strategy was stated to be to increase the number of daily Irish speakers in Ireland to 250,000 by 2030. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In the 2011 census this number was 77,185. By the time of the 2016 census , more than a quarter of the life of the strategy having passed, it had dropped to 73,803, and in the 2022 census , it had dropped ...
Northern Ireland Sign Language and Irish Sign Language have been recognised since 29 March 2004. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] A third, British Sign Language is also used. At the 2001 census , Chinese was the most widely spoken minority language in Northern Ireland, with Shelta , Arabic and Portuguese also spoken by a significant number of people. [ 1 ]