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Gaeltacht

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Gael·tacht  (gltt)
n.
The collection of regions in Ireland where Irish Gaelic is spoken as a native language.

[Irish Gaelic, from Gael, a Gael; see Gael.]

Gaeltacht [ˈgɛːltəxt], Gaedhealtacht [ˈgeɪlˌtæxt ˈgaɛl-]
n
(Placename) any of the regions in Ireland in which Irish Gaelic is the vernacular speech. The form Gaeltacht is sometimes also used to mean the region of Scotland in which Scottish Gaelic is spoken See also Gaidhealtachd
[from Irish Gaelic]


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MORE than 1,200 new jobs were created by companies in the Gaeltacht last year, Udaras na Gaeltachta claimed yesterday.
Some years ago I visited the Gaeltacht to study the State's fossilisation of Irish in a kind of linguistic museum, down the country's Western seaboard, remote from Dublin and the real world.
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