Primitive Irish or Archaic Irish, also called Proto-Goidelic, is the oldest known form of the Goidelic languages, and the ancestor of all languages within this family.
Ogham stone from Ratass Church, 6th century AD. It reads: [a]nm sillann maq vattillogg ('[in the] name of Sílán son of Fáithloga')
Folio of Auraicept na n-Éces contrasting Ogham and Latin scripts.
Irish, also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Celtic language within the Indo-European language family native to the Irish people and indigenous to the island of Ireland. It was the first l
Primitive Irish
…Primitive Irish or Archaic Irish (Irish: Gaeilge Ársa, Gaeilge Chianach), also called Proto-Goidelic, is the oldest known form of the Goidelic languages, and the ancestor of all languages…
The distribution of the Irish language in 1871
Bilingual sign in Grafton Street, Dublin
Bilingual road signs in Creggs, County Galway
A sign for the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure in Northern Ireland, in English, Irish and Ulster Scots