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Hiberno-English
English dialects native to Ireland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hiberno-English[lower-alpha 1] or Irish English (IrE),[5] also formerly sometimes called Anglo-Irish,[6] is the set of dialects of English native to the island of Ireland.[7] In both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, English is the dominant first language in everyday use and one of two official languages, along with the Irish language.
Hiberno-English | |
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Irish English | |
Native to | Ireland |
Region | Ireland (Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland); Great Britain; United States; Australia; Canada (diaspora) |
Native speakers | 5+ million in the Republic of Ireland[1]
6.8 million speakers in Ireland overall. (2012 European Commission)[2] 275,000 L2 speakers of English in Ireland (European Commission 2012) |
Early forms | |
Latin (English alphabet) Unified English Braille | |
Official status | |
Regulated by | – |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | iris1255 |
IETF | en-IE |
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Irish English's writing standards, such as its spelling, align with British English.[8] However, Irish English's diverse accents and some of its grammatical structures and vocabulary are unique, including certain notably conservative phonological features: features no longer common in the accents of England or North America. It shows significant influences from the Irish language and, in the north, the Scots language.
Phonologists today often divide Irish English into four or five overarching dialects or accents:[9][10] Ulster or Northern Irish accents, Western and Southern Irish accents (like Cork accents), various Dublin accents, and a non-regional standard accent (outside of Ulster) whose features are shifting since only the last quarter of the 20th century onwards.