Rückgang der irischen Muttersprachler in Irland
Von vladgrinch
Rückgang der irischen Muttersprachler in Irland
Von vladgrinch
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What a famine and British oppression does to a country.
Is there a more recent data set? There’s been a push to teach Gaeilge/Gaelic in school age children and hopefully the numbers look better than 2000
Ireland is lucky that the britain isnt like the russia, or they would conquer them, because they are english speakers….
Wait until you read about indo European invasion that killed thousands of languages
What’s the explanation for the continued drop between 1900 and 2000 during which the impact of British rule (which I assume is the primary cause for Gaelic dying out) had been removed
I’d love to see it now with Belfast’s Gaeltacht area
The ironic thing is that the Catholic Church sped up the Irish Gaelic language decline through the National School System imposed by the British, in exchange for Irish Catholic clerics proselytizing Catholicism in overseas British colonies. There wasn’t an Irish Gaelic Catholic bible until after the Second Vatican Council.
It was the Ulster Protestants who made the usage of Irish Gaelic in church worship services mainstream, not Irish Catholics.
„They came from the east“
Decline sounds a bit passive for what this was.
As an Irishman, I barely remember a lot of the Irish I learned in school. Many of my peers are the same. We are taught Irish since the beginning of primary school and it is a core subject all the way up until the end of secondary school. However, it is not taught properly, and it is a very hated subject. Language should have more emphasis on the conversational and listening aspect and then eventually add on written and spelling. The way Irish is written is very difficult to understand for pronunciation.
In fact, I think the whole blaming the British argument is played out too much. In the Basque region of Spain, Franco cracked down on them speaking Euskara and they managed to revitalise the language again. One could argue that was over shorter period of time and the language still existed in secret, but they really pushed for it to be brought back, and Euskara is incredibly different to Spanish as Irish is to English.
Brussels should be added. There are probably more Irish speakers in Brussels now than in Ireland.
Not enough vowels to go around.
More recent data
Being English such a dominant language OK the media, the only way for Irish to survive is to be extremely zealous about its use and keep English out of the education system except for one English language subject.
But that supposes you have enough Irish-speaking teachers, which would be impossible to begin with.
Then you have the media, with money spent on developing more quality content in Irish, particularly oriented towards children.
Basically replicating the Basque model. They’ve been extremely successful reviving a language that was facing extinction in less than 50 years.
Tiocfaidh ar la.
My great grandfather spoke the language. He was from the north west