Gaelic

Gàidhlig

Main information

Family	Indo-European
Branch	European
Group	Celtic
Native speakers	171,140
Status	Provincial
Region	Munster-Leinster (Southern Irish), Connacht (Western Irish), Donegal (Northern Irish, Ulster).

Characteristic

VSO; inflected prepositions; noun head initial; gender (masculine/feminine); definite article; case-marking (3 cases); verb affixes mark person, number; tense and aspect; comparatives; 32 consonants, 11 vowels, 4 diphthongs; non-tonal; stress on first syllable; initial consonant mutation.

Audio

Text

Ná bac le mac an bhacaigh is ní bhacfaidh mac an bhacaigh leat

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