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Originally Posted by Drybrain
I'm not sure why, but it's true: I have several Irish friends and all refer to the language as Irish. Perhaps it's simply to distinguish it from other forms of Gaelic (Scots Gaelic, for example).
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Wouldn't Gaelic be like a language group? So saying someone speaks Gaelic would be like saying someone speaks Germanic instead of saying German or Dutch, or Romance instead of French or Italian.