Editing Northern Ireland (section)

====English====
{{Main|Ulster English}}

According to the 2021 census, in 94.74% of households, all people aged 16 and above spoke English as their main language.<ref name="Census 2021 Phase 2 Bulletin">{{cite web |title=Census 2021 Main statistics for Northern Ireland Phase 2 December 2022 |url=https://www.nisra.gov.uk/system/files/statistics/census-2021-main-statistics-for-northern-ireland-phase-2-report.pdf |website=NISRA |access-date=5 January 2023 |archive-date=2 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230102173056/https://www.nisra.gov.uk/system/files/statistics/census-2021-main-statistics-for-northern-ireland-phase-2-report.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> The dialect of English spoken in Northern Ireland shows influence from the lowland [[Scots language]].<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aPPexF5hyIkC&q=DIALECT+OF+NORTHERN+IRELAND+COMES+FROM+SCOTLAND&pg=PA90 |title=Dialects across borders |author=Markku Filppula |publisher=John Benjamins Publishing Co, Amsterdam |year=2005 |page=90 |access-date=2 January 2011 |isbn=978-9027247872 |archive-date=13 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413214714/https://books.google.com/books?id=aPPexF5hyIkC&q=DIALECT+OF+NORTHERN+IRELAND+COMES+FROM+SCOTLAND&pg=PA90 |url-status=live}}</ref> There are supposedly some minute differences in pronunciation between Protestants and Catholics, for instance; the name of the letter ''h'', which Protestants tend to pronounce as "aitch", as in [[British English]], and Catholics tend to pronounce as "haitch", as in [[Hiberno-English]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Donnan |first1=Hastings |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V0UHEAAAQBAJ&dq=Northern+Ireland++differences+in+pronunciation+between+Protestants+and+Catholics&pg=PT111 |title=The Anthropology of Ireland |last2=Wilson |first2=Thomas M. |date= 2020 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-000-18999-5 |language=en |access-date=29 November 2022 |archive-date=4 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404132331/https://books.google.com/books?id=V0UHEAAAQBAJ&dq=Northern+Ireland++differences+in+pronunciation+between+Protestants+and+Catholics&pg=PT111 |url-status=live }}</ref> However, geography is a much more important determinant of dialect than religious background.