Early Modern Irish

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Early Modern Irish is the historical stage of the Irish language used roughly between the 13th and 17th centuries, serving as the basis for the modern Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Manx languages.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Early Modern Irish canonical 5

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Goidelic language variety
historical language stage
stage of the Irish language
alsoKnownAs Classical Gaelic
linked to: Irish language

Classical Irish
linked to: Middle Irish
basisFor Manx
Modern Irish
Scottish Gaelic
developsFrom Middle Irish
Old Irish
endTimeApproximate c. 1650
followedBy Manx
Modern Irish
Scottish Gaelic
follows Middle Irish
hasFeature VSO basic word order
complex verbal morphology
conservative orthography
inflected prepositions
initial consonant mutations
relatively standardized literary norm
influenced Classical Manx
linked to: Manx

Early Modern Scottish Gaelic
languageFamily Celtic
linked to: Goidelic

Goidelic
partOf Irish language
standardFormOf Classical Gaelic
linked to: Irish language
startTimeApproximate c. 1200
subdivisionOf Celtic languages
Goidelic languages
linked to: Goidelic

Indo-European languages
Insular Celtic languages
usedBy Gaelic learned orders in Scotland
learned classes in Gaelic Ireland
professional poets (filí)
usedFor annals and chronicles
legal texts
poetry
religious literature
usedInPeriod 13th century
14th century
15th century
16th century
17th century
usedInTerritory Ireland
Isle of Man
Scottish Highlands
writingSystem Irish minuscule
Latin script

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Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Middle Irish developedInto Early Modern Irish
Modern Irish follows Early Modern Irish
Modern Irish derivedFrom Early Modern Irish
Irish language hasHistoricalStage Early Modern Irish
Kingdom of Connacht language Early Modern Irish