الغيلية

شهدت لغة المانكس ، وهي لغة شديدة الشبه باللغة الأيرلندية ، ^{[ 3 ] انتعاشاً كبيراً في السنوات الأخيرة، [ 4 ]} على الرغم من ندرة استخدامها لدرجة أن تقريراً للأمم المتحدة صنّفها خطأً على أنها لغة منقرضة في عام 2009. ^{[ 5 ]} ويعود تراجع اللغة في الجزيرة بشكل أساسي إلى الوصم الاجتماعي وارتفاع معدلات الهجرة إلى إنجلترا . ^{[ 4 ]}

There are now primary schools teaching in the medium of Manx Gaelic; efforts are modelled mainly on the Irish system.^[6] The efforts have been widely praised,^[7] with further developments such as using technology to teach the language being put into place.^[8]

Estimates of numbers of native speakers of Irish in the Republic of Ireland in 2000 ranged from 20,000 to 80,000.^[9][10][11] According to the 2006 census for the Republic, 85,000 people used Irish daily outside of school and 1.2 million used Irish at least occasionally.^[12] In the 2011 Census, these numbers increased to 94,000 and 1.3 million, respectively.^[13] Active Irish speakers probably comprise 5 to 10 per cent of Ireland's population.^[14]

In recent decades, there has been a significant increase in the number of urban Irish speakers, particularly in Dublin. The dispersed but large, educated and middle-class urban Gaeilgeoir community enjoys a lively cultural life and is buoyed by the growth of Irish medium education and Irish-language media.^[15]

In some official Gaeltachtaí (Irish-speaking regions) areas, Irish remains a vernacular language alongside English.

In Northern Ireland, the Gaelicisation process is significantly slower and less-supported than elsewhere on the island and the status of the Irish language in Northern Ireland is the subject of heated political debates.^[16][17]

In Scotland, Scottish Gaelic and traditional Gaelic customs such those manifested at the Highland Games, with traditional sports such as the caber toss, are mainly restricted to the Highlands and islands. In the 21st century, Scottish Gaelic literature has seen development and challenges within the area of prose fiction publication,^[18] and phrases such as Alba gu bràth may be used today as a catch-phrase or rallying cry. Gaelicised areas are referred to as Gàidhealtachd.