Wednesday, November 21, 2018

POLISH SPEAKERS IN IRELAND OUTNUMBER IRISH SPEAKERS

The Irish Constitution describes Irish as the “national language”, but English is the dominant language. In the 2006 census, 39% of the population regarded themselves as competent in Irish. Irish is spoken as a community language only in a small number of rural areas in mostly in the west and south of the country.

As a result of immigration, Polish is the most widely spoken language in Ireland after English with Irish as the third most spoken.

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