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Murtagh (other)
Murtagh (Irish language, Irish: Ó Muircheartaigh) is an Irish surname. Murtagh may also refer to: People * Murtagh (name) Fictional characters * List of the Inheritance Cycle characters, Murtagh, a character in ''The Inheritance Cycle'' ** ''Murtagh (novel), Murtagh'', a 2023 novel by Christopher Paolini See also *Murtaugh (other) *Murtha *Kjartan, a related Nordic name {{Disambiguation Surnames of Irish origin Anglicised Irish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Language
Irish (Standard Irish: ), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic ( ), is a Celtic language of the Indo-European language family. It is a member of the Goidelic languages of the Insular Celtic sub branch of the family and is indigenous language, indigenous to the island of Ireland. It was the majority of the population's first language until the 19th century, when English (language), English gradually became dominant, particularly in the last decades of the century, in what is sometimes characterised as a result of linguistic imperialism. Today, Irish is still commonly spoken as a first language in Ireland's Gaeltacht regions, in which 2% of Ireland's population lived in 2022. The total number of people (aged 3 and over) in Ireland who declared they could speak Irish in April 2022 was 1,873,997, representing 40% of respondents, but of these, 472,887 said they never spoke it and a further 551,993 said they only spoke it within the education system. Linguistic analyses o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
