Gaeltacht
The Gaeltacht (plural Gaeltachtaí) is the airts in Ireland whaur the Erse is tradeitionnalie spokken bi mony fowk.[1] Gaeltachtaí is tae the maist pairt wast the island, but there's a few wee anes soothle an ane eastle. 70% o the fowk in the Gaeltacht speaks the Erse, an aw the road signs is anerly in the Erse.
The Gaeltacht destricks wis forehaun offeecially recognised durin the 1920s in the airly years o the Irish Free State, follaein the Gaelic revival, as pairt o a government policy aimed at keppin the Erse leid.[2]
The Gaeltacht is threitent by serious leid decline.[3] Resairch furthset in 2015 shawed that Erse is spaken on a daily basis by twa-thirds or mair o the population in anly 21 o the 155 electoral divisions in the Gaeltacht. Daily leid uiss by twa-thirds or mair o the population is regairdit by some academics as a cowpin pynt for leid owerpittin.[4][5]
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References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ "Definition of GAELTACHT". www.merriam-webster.com (in Inglis). 27 October 2024. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
- ↑ Maguire, Peter A. (Fall 2002). "Language and Landscape in the Connemara Gaeltacht". Journal of Modern Literature. 26 (1): 99–107. doi:10.2979/JML.2002.26.1.99. S2CID 161439552.
- ↑ Mac Donnacha, Joe, 'The Death of a Language', Dublin Review of Books, Issue 58, 16 June 2014: http://www.drb.ie/essays/the-death-of-a-language
- ↑ RTÉ News Report of Friday 29 May 2015
- ↑ NUASHONRÚ AR AN STAIDÉAR CUIMSITHEACH TEANGEOLAÍOCH AR ÚSÁID NA GAEILGE SA GHAELTACHT: 2006–2011