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Gaelic, by itself, is sometimes used to refer to Scottish Gaelic, especially in Scotland, and therefore is ambiguous.Irish and Manx are sometimes referred to as Irish Gaelic and Manx Gaelic (as they are Goidelic or Gaelic languages), but the use of the word Gaelic is unnecessary because the terms Irish and Manx, when used to denote languages, always refer to those languages.
Irish (Standard Irish: Gaeilge), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic (/ ˈ ɡ eɪ l ɪ k / ⓘ GAY-lik), [3] [4] [5] is a Celtic language of the Indo-European language family. [4] [6] [7] [8] [3] It is a member of the Goidelic languages of the Insular Celtic sub branch of the family and is indigenous to the island of Ireland. [9]
Old Irish molt 'wether', Middle Welsh mollt 'ram, wether', Gaulish Moltus (name) and *multon-(borrowed into French as mouton, from which to English as mutton) The Old Irish word for "horn", adarc , is also listed as a potential Basque loanword; in Basque the word is adar .
An English translation by Valentine Iremonger appeared in 1962 as, The Hard Road to Klondike. The title of the English version refers to the Klondike gold rush , Ruathar an Óir , at the end of the 19th century, and the hardships Irish-speakers endured working in the mines of Tír an Airgid ("The Land of Silver", or Montana ) and Tír an Óir ...
The order is verb–subject–object (VSO) in the second half. Compare this to English or French (and possibly Continental Celtic) which are normally subject–verb–object in word order. Welsh: pedwar ar bymtheg a phedwar ugain (Literally) four on fifteen and four twenties. bymtheg is a mutated form of pymtheg, which is pump ("five") plus deg ...
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A sign indicating services in Gaelic and English at a Free Church of Scotland congregation in the community of Ness, Isle of Lewis. In the Western Isles, the isles of Lewis, Harris and North Uist have a Presbyterian majority (largely Church of Scotland – Eaglais na h-Alba in Gaelic, Free Church of Scotland and Free Presbyterian Church of ...
Since 2017 the headquarters of Foras na Gaeilge is situated in Áras na Gaeilge on Amiens Street in Dublin. Raidió na Life is also based in the áras.. Foras na Gaeilge ([ˈfˠɔɾˠəsˠ n̪ˠə ˈɡeːlʲɟə], "Irish Institute"; FnaG) is a public body responsible for the promotion of the Irish language throughout the island of Ireland, including both the Republic of Ireland and Northern ...