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Hiberno-English

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Hiberno-English
Irish English
Native toIreland
RegionIreland (Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland); Great Britain; United States; Australia; Canada (diaspora)
Native speakers
5+ million in the Republic of Ireland[1] 6.8 million speakers in Ireland overall. (2012 European Commission)[2]
275,000 L2 speakers of English in Ireland (European Commission 2012)
Early forms
Latin (English alphabet)
Unified English Braille
Official status
Regulated by–
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
Glottologiris1255
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Hiberno-English (/haɪˈbɜːrnoʊ, hɪ-/ hy-BUR-noh, hih-;[3][4] from Latin: Hibernia "Ireland")[a] or Irish English (IrE),[5] also formerly sometimes called Anglo-Irish,[6] is the set of English dialects native to the island of Ireland, including both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.[7]

In the Republic of Ireland, English is one of two official languages, along with the Irish language, and is the country's de facto working language. Irish English's writing standards, such as its spelling, align with British English.[8] However, Irish English's diverse accents and some of its grammatical structures and vocabulary are unique, with some influences deriving from the Irish language and some notably conservative phonological features: features no longer common in the accents of England or North America.

Phonologists today often divide Irish English into four or five overarching dialects or accents:[9][10] Ulster accents, West and South-West Irish accents (like Cork accents), various Dublin accents, and a non-regional standard accent expanding since only the last quarter of the twentieth century (outside of Northern Ireland).

  1. ^ "Ireland Population (2021) – Worldometer". Worldometers.info. Archived from the original on 16 February 2021. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
  2. ^ English (Ireland) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  3. ^ "Definition of 'Hiberno-'". CollinsDictionary.com. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  4. ^ "Hiberno-English". merriam-webster.com.
  5. ^ Hickey (2007a)
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Christiansen was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ "Hiberno-English Archive". DRAPIer. IE: DHO. Archived from the original on 16 September 2010. Retrieved 26 November 2010.
  8. ^ Hickey, Raymond (ed.) (2012). Standards of English: Codified Varieties Around the World. United Kingdom, Cambridge University Press. pp. 99–100.
  9. ^ de Gruyter 2004, pp. 90–93
  10. ^ Hickey, Raymond (2004). A Sound Atlas of Irish English. Vol. 1. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 57–60. ISBN 978-3-11-018298-9. Archived from the original on 16 May 2015.


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