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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.
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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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.
Many English-language newspapers have Irish-language columns, including: An Phoblacht; Irish Independent – on Wednesdays includes the newspaper Seachtain; Connaught Telegraph; Evening Echo – weekly Irish-language segment; Irish Echo; Irish Daily Star (column on Saturdays) Irish News; The Irish Times
Nuacht24 (Irish pronunciation: [ˈn̪ˠuəxt̪ˠ ˌfʲɪçə ˈcahəɾʲ]; meaning "Twenty-four hour News") is an Irish language news website and weekly online newspaper with a weekly printed edition [1] based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It has been favourably received by Irish media as an independent, comprehensive, up-to-date news service.
The Irish Times – weekly Irish-language page entitled Tuarascáil published on Mondays and they also publish these articles and other Irish-language articles and some Irish-language news in English on their Treibh Twitter account. Irish News – Belfast-based daily newspaper for Northern Ireland; daily Irish-language pages