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Alba
Alba is the Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland and the medieval Gaelic kingdom formed from Picts and Scots around 900, first attested in Irish chronicles; originally meant Britain, cognate with Albion, Irish Albain, Welsh Yr Alban.
Breton language
Breton (brezhoneg) is a Brittonic Celtic language of Brittany, France, spoken by about 225,000 people, with 19,000+ pupils in bilingual schooling, four traditional dialects, and writing from the 8th century.
Brittonic languages
Brittonic (Brythonic) languages: the P-Celtic branch of Celtic descending from the language of Britain, comprising Welsh, Cornish, Breton, extinct Cumbric, and probably Pictish, opposed to Goidelic (Q-Celtic) Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Manx.
Erin go bragh
Erin go bragh, anglicized from Irish Éirinn go brách or Éire go brách, means "Ireland forever". A United Irishmen rallying cry from the 1798 rebellion, later a diaspora slogan, street-ballad title, and St. Patrick's Day greeting.
Irish language
Irish (An Ghaeilge), a Goidelic Celtic language and Ireland's first official language and an EU official language since 2007. Four historical periods from Old Irish; Census 2022 records 1,873,997 speakers aged 3+, 40% of the population; three dialects: Ulster, Connacht, Munster.