Irish - Gaeilge is spoken daily in Ireland and parts of Scotland by 73,803 people – 4.2% of the population. It is a Celtic language and is believed to have originated 2500 years ago but the oldest remains of Ancient Irish - Gaeilge that we have are inscriptions on Ogham stones from the 5th and 6th centuries. Fun fact: sentences have Verb Subject Object order. So "I saw a bird" would be "Saw I a bird." "I always speak Irish" would be "Speak I Irish always." This word order is relatively rare—only 9 percent of the world's languages use it.