Middle Irish

Goidelic language which was spoken in Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man from the 10th to 12th centuries
Intangible dead_language Q36116
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Middle Irish

Summary

Middle Irish is a dead language[1]. It draws 198 Wikipedia views per month (dead_language category, ranking #35 of 160).[2]

Key Facts

  • Middle Irish's instance of is recorded as dead language[3].
  • Middle Irish's instance of is recorded as historical language[4].
  • Middle Irish's ISO 639-2 code is recorded as mga[5].
  • Middle Irish's ISO 639-3 code is recorded as mga[6].
  • Middle Irish's GND ID is recorded as 4120262-4[7].
  • Middle Irish's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85068103[8].
  • Middle Irish's subclass of is recorded as Irish[9].
  • Middle Irish's writing system is recorded as Latin script[10].
  • Middle Irish's IETF language tag is recorded as mga[11].
  • Middle Irish's Commons category is recorded as Middle Irish language[12].
  • Middle Irish's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/07kf02[13].
  • Middle Irish's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Middle Irish[14].
  • Middle Irish's Linguist List code is recorded as mga[15].
  • Middle Irish's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 567088[16].
  • Middle Irish's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'mga', 'text': 'Gaoidhealg'}[17].
  • Middle Irish's exact match is recorded as http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/MGA[18].
  • Middle Irish's exact match is recorded as http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#MiddleIrish[19].
  • Middle Irish's linguistic typology is recorded as verb–subject–object[20].
  • Middle Irish's linguistic typology is recorded as nominative–accusative language[21].
  • Middle Irish's linguistic typology is recorded as stress-timed language[22].
  • Middle Irish's linguistic typology is recorded as fusional language[23].
  • Middle Irish's LC and MARC vocabularies ID is recorded as languages/mga[24].
  • Middle Irish's LC and MARC vocabularies ID is recorded as iso639-2/mga[25].
  • Middle Irish's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007560419105171[26].
  • Middle Irish's POSIX locale identifier is recorded as mga[27].

Why It Matters

Middle Irish draws 198 Wikipedia views per month (dead_language category, ranking #35 of 160).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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