Middle Irish

Middle Irish
Gaoidhealg
Pronunciation	[ˈɡɯːʝeɫɡ]
Native to	Ireland, Scotland, Isle of Man
Era	Evolved into Early Modern Irish/Classical Gaelic about the 12th century
Language family	Indo-European Celtic Insular Celtic Goidelic Middle Irish
Early forms	Primitive Irish Old Irish Middle Irish
Writing system	Latin (Gaelic alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-2	mga
ISO 639-3	mga
Glottolog	None

Middle Irish (sometimes called Middle Gaelic) is the Goidelic language which was spoken in Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man from the 10th to 12th centuries; it is therefore a contemporary of late Old English and early Middle English. The modern Goidelic languages—Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx—are all descendants of Middle Irish.

The Lebor Bretnach, the "Irish Nennius", survives only from manuscripts preserved in Ireland; however, Thomas Owen Clancy has recently argued that it was written in Scotland, at the monastery in Abernethy.

See also

• Dictionary of the Irish Language