Is Irish a whole different languange or is it just a different english accent?

Question

Is Irish a whole different languange or is it just a different english accent?

Answer 1

Irish is a language, also called Gaeilge, or referred to as "Irish Gaelic".  If you would like to see a sample, the link below is to an Irish government website in Irish.

Answer 2

their language is not called "irish" it is called Gaelic and most of ireland don't use it. They mostly use English with beautiful accent. The kids do learn Gaelic in school, but most kids hate learning it. Just like your school might teach Spanish, Italian, French etc. they do that too, But they also have to learn Gaelic on top of that. Just like any language Gaelic is difficult to learn. My mom learned Gaelic going to school and she barely remembers anything. So there's your answer, Irish isn't a language, however Gaelic is! =]

hey wanna learn a little gaelic?

1. tea- te (pronunciation- tay) sorry idk how to do accent marks

2. sugar- suicra- (shu-cra)

3. milk- baine (bon-ya)

im not a hundred percent posotive on those but im sure their close so dont yell at me if i'm wrong, my uncle taught me themm =)

Answer 3

its just a different accent

Answer 4

why is this in makeup?

Answer 5

Its a different English accent, there is no "Irish Language" only an "irish accent"

Answer 6

English (official) is the language generally used, Irish (Gaelic or Gaeilge) (official) spoken mainly in areas located along the western seaboard  

Answer 7

these days they just have a different accent, but the native language is Gaelic

Answer 8

Well Irish people speak English, but with an Irish accent.  However, in Ireland Gaelic is also traditionally spoken; that's an entirely different language.

Answer 9

It's a language completely different to English.

It is an accent too though.

It's not called gaelic at all.

To be honest it does get annoying after a while when people insist that it's called gaelic.

I undertand that quite a few people might not know it's a language but I live in Ireland, I was born here and went to a gaelscoil (that's a school where you only speak Irish) and lived part of my life in the Gaeltacht but foreigners will still insist that it's called "gaelic" and that Irish is not a language.

I think it's ignorant to tell an Irish person what the language they speak is called.

It's called Irish and it's the official language of Ireland.

I could go on and on about it but you can read about it here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_langu...

You can find out more about Irish here too

http://www.pobail.ie/en/IrishLanguage/

That's the site of the Department of the Gaeltacht

Answer 10

Irish is a language.

The language is called Gaeilge (in Irish) and Irish (in English).

I speak Irish (its my first language) and its extremely frustrating to me when people explain to me how "Irish is not a language".

Especially because the people who say it are never native speakers, because every native speaker would know better.

They are just people that feel that despite the fact that they have no knowledge of a language yet they fell that they can speak  with authority about it.

Gaelic is not a language.

Anyone who tells you that there is no such thing as Irish and that its called gaelic or that Irish people speak Gaelic have no idea what they are talking about.

Gaelic is a family of languages.

The Gaelic family of languages consists 3 separate and different languages-

Irish (Gaeilge)

Scots (Gàidhlig)

Manx (Gaelg)

Answer 11

just diff accent

Answer 12

i think just a different accent.