Auraicept na nÉces (Scholars' Primer), an Old Irish text on language, possibly written by Cenn Fáelad, covering topics such as the origin of the classification of letters in the Latin and Irish alphabets, ogam, and grammatical gender.

[Irish, the scholar's primer]

Treatise on the origins and classifications of the Irish language, used in bardic schools of pre-Norman Ireland. Among the subjects discussed are the origin and order of the Latin and Irish alphabets, including ogham, grammatical gender, verb forms, and elements of rhyme. Sometimes attributed to the 7th-century warrior and poet Cenn Fáelad. The standard modern edition is by George Calder (Edinburgh, 1917). See also Anders Ahlquist, The Early Irish Linguist (Helsinki, 1983).