الإنجليزية الأيرلندية
Also known as Irish-English, IrE, Irish English (IrE), Irish English, Hiberno English, English in Ireland, en-IE, Anglo-Irish
Hiberno-English or Irish English (IrE), also formerly sometimes called Anglo-Irish, is the set of dialects of the English language native to the island of Ireland. In both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, English is the first language in everyday use and, alongside the Irish language, one of two official languages (with Ulster Scots, in Northern Ireland, being another local language or dialect).
Key facts
- Language.name
- Hiberno-English
- Language.altname
- Irish EnglishAnglo-Irish
- Language.nativename
- English
- Language.states
- Ireland
- Language.region
- Native: Republic of Ireland and Northern IrelandDiaspora: United States, Great Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand
- Language.ethnicity
- Irish people
- Language.speakers
- 5+ million in the Republic of Ireland 6.8 million speakers in Ireland overall.
- Language.date
- 2012 European Commission
- Language.speakers2
- 275,000 L2 speakers of English in Ireland (European Commission 2012)
- Language.familycolor
- Indo-European
- Language.fam2
- Germanic
- Language.fam3