Locale En Ie
Use when working with the English (Ireland) locale (`en-IE`) — its endonym English (Ireland), Latin script, left-to-right (LTR) direction, or spoken-population data. Reference data and translation guidance (register, grammar, idiom, typography) for this specific locale; see [[locale]] for general i18n/l10n concepts (BCP 47, plural rules, RTL) that apply across all locales.
Reference data for the English (Ireland) locale — endonym English (Ireland), written in the Latin script, left-to-right (LTR).
Identifiers
- BCP 47 tag:
en-IE - ISO 639-1:
en - ISO 639-3:
eng - Script: Latn (Latin)
- Region: IE (Ireland)
- Text direction: ltr — left-to-right (LTR)
Speakers (approximate)
- L1 (native): 4,200,000
- L2 (additional): 600,000
- L1+L2 (total): 4,800,000
Base locale
This is a regional variant of Locale En 001 (English), the base/macro locale for this language.
Pluralization
CLDR plural categories for this locale: one, other (2 forms).
- one —
i = 1 and v = 0(e.g. 1) - other — everything else (e.g. 0, 2~16, 100, 1000, …)
See Unicode Messageformat for writing plural messages using these categories.
Translating into this locale
Apply Locale En 001 and use these Irish conventions. Hiberno-English is rich in local idiom, but Irish business and government writing follows standard British forms.
- Spelling: British forms (-ise, -our, -re); the Irish language words in public use keep their accents (fada): "Taoiseach", "Dáil", "Gaeltacht", "Garda".
- Dates and numbers: day/month/year, 24-hour clock in timetables, decimal point and comma thousands separator, euro (€) before the amount.
- Names: place names, personal names, and institutions keep Irish-language spellings and fadas; do not remove accents.
- Vocabulary: "mobile", "boot" (car trunk), "press" (cupboard) are local; "grand" and "craic" are colloquial.
Common pitfalls
- Removing fadas from Irish names.
- Using "pounds" or "£" in Irish contexts, or Northern Irish and Republic terms interchangeably.
- The general pitfalls in Locale En 001 also apply.
Learn more
- Locale for BCP 47 identifiers, locale-sensitive formatting, pluralization, and text-direction concepts that apply across all locales.
- Unicode Messageformat for writing plural/selection messages correctly for this locale's grammar.
- Microsoft Writing Style Guide (https://learn.microsoft.com/style-guide/welcome/)
- Tearma.ie, the National Terminology Database for Irish (https://www.tearma.ie)