First, if you are reading this in English, you’ve got to find a better way to spend your time… 🙂
This post is written in Irish Gaelic, the language of my ancestors.
Please do not feel a need to feed this into Google translate; it does not even live up to the already low standards of Borden’s Blather.
Irish Gaelic (Gaeilge nah Eireann) is a Celtic language spoken by 138,000 people as a first language, and by another 1,000,000 people as a second language in Ireland with 276,000 first-language speakers worldwide (Ethnologue).The language is sometimes referred to as Gaelic, Irish Gaelic, or Erse, but in Ireland it is simply called Irish.
Although Irish has borrowed some words from English, its basic vocabulary is inherently Celtic. Here are some basic words and phrases in Irish:
| Welcome | Fáilte |
| Good bye | Slán |
| Please | Le do thoil |
| Thank you | Go raibh maith agat |
| Sorry | Tá brón orm |
| A hundred thousand big welcomes | Céad míle fáilte |
| Man | Fear |
| Woman | Bean |
Below are the numerals 1-10 in Irish Gaelic.
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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8
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9
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10
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aon
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dó
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tri
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ceathair
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cúig
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sé
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seacht
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ocht
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naoi
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deich
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