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> That language is on artificial life support, much like Welsh, where there has to be considerable government initiatives to keep it alive. I am endlessly amused by the introductions in this video, describing the significance of English in each guest's home country: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dQiA8lz45c#t=378 [Scotland] Scotland - it's quite a small country, there's not a large population, but we obviously we used to have Scots Gaelic, which was our national language but then, eh... something eh... [England pointedly looks in the other direction] another country came over and uh, kind of, uh... I think, honestly, the percentage of people who speak Scots Gaelic is one percent. But now everyone speaks English... [...] [Wales] We... are probably one of the most patriotic bred people here. That's a bold claim. [video cuts] that we have to be very proud of our culture and our language because, uh, similar history with Scotland... so our language was on the edge of dying out, but, it sounds really different to English. Most people don't know that [...] [Ireland] Oh, yeah, so... Ireland is similar with Wales and Scotland with the... [gestures to England] our friend... The Scotsman and the Irish girl speak only English, but the Welsh girl was raised speaking Welsh, so there does appear to be some comparative health. |