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.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Goidelic language variety
historical language stage
stage of the Irish language
alsoKnownAs Irish language
surface form: Classical Gaelic

Middle Irish
surface form: Classical 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 Manx
surface form: Classical Manx

Early Modern Scottish Gaelic
languageFamily Goidelic
surface form: Celtic

Goidelic
partOf Irish language
standardFormOf Irish language
surface form: Classical Gaelic
startTimeApproximate c. 1200
subdivisionOf Celtic languages
Goidelic
surface form: Goidelic languages

Indo-European language family
surface form: 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 (crown dependency)
surface form: Isle of Man

Scottish Highlands
writingSystem Irish minuscule
Latin script

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

Modern Irish derivedFrom Early Modern Irish
Middle Irish developedInto Early Modern Irish
Modern Irish follows Early Modern Irish
Irish language hasHistoricalStage Early Modern Irish