Editing Ulster (section)

==Languages and dialects==
{{Main|Ulster English|Ulster Irish|Hiberno-English|Ulster Scots dialects}}

Most people in Ulster speak English. English is taught in all schools in the province; [[Irish language|Irish]] (''{{lang|ga|Gaeilge}}'') is taught in all schools in the counties that are part of the Republic, and in schools in Northern Ireland, almost exclusively in the Roman Catholic and Irish-medium sectors. In responses to the 2001 census in Northern Ireland 10% of the population had "some knowledge of Irish"<ref name="nisra.gov.uk-Census2001">Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency [http://www.nisranew.nisra.gov.uk/Census/Census2001Output/UnivariateTables/uv_tables1.html#irish%20language Census 2001 Output] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101214080902/http://www.nisranew.nisra.gov.uk/census/Census2001Output/UnivariateTables/uv_tables1.html#irish%20language |date=14 December 2010 }}</ref> and 4.7% could "speak, read, write and understand" Irish.<ref name = "nisra.gov.uk-Census2001"/> Large parts of [[County Donegal]] are [[Gaeltacht]] areas where [[Irish language|Irish]] is the first language and some people in west Belfast also speak Irish, especially in the "Gaeltacht Quarter".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/language/pritchard04.htm|title=CAIN: Key Issue: Language: Pritchard, R.M.O. (2004) Protestants and the Irish Language: Historical Heritage and Current Attitudes in Northern Ireland.|first=Dr Martin|last=Melaugh|website=cain.ulst.ac.uk|access-date=22 March 2008|archive-date=28 September 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120928064747/http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/language/pritchard04.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> The dialect of Irish most commonly spoken in Ulster (especially throughout Northern Ireland and County Donegal) is ''{{lang|ga|Gaeilge Thír Chonaill}}'' or Donegal Irish, also known as ''{{lang|ga|Gaeilge Uladh}}'' or [[Ulster Irish]]. Donegal Irish has many similarities to [[Scottish Gaelic]]. [[Polish language|Polish]] is the third most common language. [[Ulster Scots dialects]], sometimes known by the [[neologism]] ''Ullans'', are also spoken in Counties Down, Antrim, Londonderry and Donegal.<ref>{{cite book|last=Gregg|first=R. J.|chapter=The Scotch-Irish Dialect Boundaries in Ulster|editor=Wakelin, Martyn F.|title=Patterns in the Folk Speech of the British Isles|location=London|publisher=Athlone Press|year=1972|isbn=978-0-485-11128-6|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/patternsinfolksp0000wake}}</ref><!-- Note to editors: the agreed compromise for the Derry/Londonderry naming dispute is that the city shall be Derry and the county shall be Londonderry. -->

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