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Essential Irish Phrases
This is the next installment of essential phrases from the newest additions to our Spoken World series. (Previously: Essential Dutch Phrases, Essential Thai Phrases) Irish is an Indo-European language, grouped with Welsh, Breton, Cornish, and Manx on the Celtic branch of the tree. There are many Irish dialects, and there are currently about 260,000 native, fluent speakers of Irish in the Republic of Ireland, with an additional 96,000 speakers living in Northern Ireland. Irish is spoken as the everyday native language of an area of Ireland called Gaeltacht, made up of the counties Donegal, Mayo, Galway, Kerry, Cork, and Waterford. Click on the play button below to hear each of the following essential Irish phrases spoken by a native speaker. Tags: Irish, Spoken World
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