爱尔兰英语

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
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