Irish language - Ireland (English)

Japanese: アイルランド語 - アイルランドご(英語表記)Irish language
Irish language - Ireland (English)
A language belonging to the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family. Along with Scottish Gaelic, it is part of the Goidelic group. Its earliest form can be seen to some extent in inscriptions in Ogham script. The Roman alphabet was brought to Ireland in the 5th century, and all subsequent documents have been written in Roman script. Ancient Irish retains a complex verb conjugation system. In the early modern period, it gradually fell into decline due to the influence of English, but it is currently being taught and promoted as an official language in the Republic of Ireland. Today, it is reported that there are approximately one million speakers, of which approximately 30,000 are thought to have Irish as their first mother tongue.

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Japanese:
インド=ヨーロッパ語族のケルト語派に属する言語。スコットランド・ゲーリック語などとともにゴイデリック諸語をなす。最も古い時期の姿は,オガム文字の碑文にある程度うかがうことができる。5世紀にローマ字がアイルランドにもたらされ,以後の文献はローマ字で書かれている。古代アイルランド語は動詞の複雑な活用組織をよくとどめている。近世以後,次第に英語の勢力に押され衰退したが,現在,アイルランド共和国で公用語として教育・普及がはかられている。今日では約 100万人の話し手がいると報告されているが,アイルランド語を第1の母語とする者はそのうち約3万人とみられる。

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