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Irish

Ирландцы

language area per Glottologcensus counts
3,893,056
Ireland, 2022 (ethnicity / nationality)
30,467,248
United States, 2023 (ancestry (self-reported))
Indo-European
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

Main language: Irish. Glottolog classifies it in the Indo-European family.

Official figures from other countries

Figures from different countries do not add up: censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry). The type is shown on each figure.

Ireland · 2022
3,893,056
Category as printed: «White Irish»ethnicity / nationality
[1] Central Statistics Office (Ireland)
United States · 2023
30,467,248
Category as printed: «Irish»ancestry (self-reported)
[2] U.S. Census Bureau

Languages and their lineage

Irish

  1. Indo-Europeanindo1319
  2. Classical Indo-Europeanclas1257
  3. Celticcelt1248
  4. Nuclear Celticnucl1715
  5. Core Celtictgbc1234
  6. Insular Celticinsu1254
  7. Goidelicgoid1240
  8. Modern Goidelicmode1265
  9. Irishiris1253

English

  1. Indo-Europeanindo1319
  2. Classical Indo-Europeanclas1257
  3. Germanicgerm1287
  4. Northwest Germanicnort3152
  5. West Germanicwest2793
  6. North Sea Germanicnort3175
  7. Anglo-Frisianangl1264
  8. Anglicangl1265
  9. Later Angliclate1254
  10. Middle-Modern Englishmerc1242
  11. Macro-Englishmacr1271
  12. Englishstan1293

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

RussiansMarathiGermansSpaniardsMexicansEnglishAmericansItaliansRomaniansNepali (Khas-Arya)DutchBelarusiansCzechsScotsSerbsBulgariansCubansBraziliansWelshGreeksMacedoniansArmeniansUkrainiansSlovaks

Sources

  1. Central Statistics Office (Ireland). Census of Population 2022 Profile 5 - Diversity, Migration, Ethnicity, Irish Travellers & Religion: Ethnic Group and Background. https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-cpp5/censusofpopulation2022profile5-div…
  2. U.S. Census Bureau. ACS 2023 1-year, Table B04006 (variable B04006_049E, label Estimate!!Total:!!Irish). https://data.census.gov/api/access/data/table?id=ACSDT1Y2023.B04006&g=010XX00US
  3. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)