Old Irish

Old Irish was the Irish language in the Early Middle Ages. People spoke Old Irish in early medieval Ireland, before the year 1000 AD.^[1] Old Irish was a Gaelic language, and Gaelic languages like modern Irish and Scottish Gaelic came from it.^[1]

The western British Isles in a satellite photograph by the European Space Agency.

People speaking Celtic languages probably first came to Ireland at the start of the Iron Age, about 500 BC.^[2] By around 500 AD, people in Ireland all had the same Goidelic language and culture.^[2] Speakers of Old Irish began to move to Great Britain as Roman Britain became weaker.^[2] Other peoples of the British Isles named these people the Scoti.^[2]

Old Irish was the only language in the Goidelic family of languages until Old Irish split into the modern languages of Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Manx.^[2] These languages are Celtic languages and part of the bigger group of Indo-European languages.^[2]

ReferencesEdit

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Stevenson, Angus, ed. (2015) [2010]. "Old Irish". Oxford Dictionary of English (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780199571123.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-172766-5. Retrieved 2021-03-05.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 Welch, Robert (2003) [2000]. The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780192800800.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-280080-0.

[:0-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Stevenson, Angus, ed. (2015) [2010]. "Old Irish". Oxford Dictionary of English (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780199571123.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-172766-5. Retrieved 2021-03-05.

[:1-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 Welch, Robert (2003) [2000]. The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780192800800.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-280080-0.

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