Tuesday, January 27, 2009

English vs. Gaelic in Gaeltacht

Create Laws to keep out non-Gaelic speakers

  • to preserve their culture
  • Stop the erosion of Gaelic
  • Due to the drop in Gaelic speakers
  • keep number of Gaelic speakers high
  • get back at the English
  • preserve cultural identity
  • Sapir-Whorf: Lose Language, Lose Culture
  • Oldest Spoken Language in Europe
  • We're here, so learn our language

Promoting Gaelic Only laws is linguistic apartheid

  • Separating people- Human Rights implications
  • Financial implications
  • No melting pot effect
  • Tourism affected
  • 21st Century
  • part of globalization

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0206/p20s01-woeu.html

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