How can the people from a country with an extensive historical and cultural background be unable to speak or even understand their own language?
Are there other anomalies such as Ireland?
Isle of Man.
India
>>61855925
Virtual every American Indian in existence
>>61855968
Even they have their own language.
>>61856000
At least the Hindus have Sanskrit.
>>61855925
I can speak and understand my own language fine. Fuck off you monkey shouldn't you be mourning the deaths of your fellow brethren in America?
>>61856073
Yeah that's valid for most native folks from the Americas, but I meant nations with a proper history, belonging to a sufficiently advanced civilization. As far as I know, by the time Europeans reached the new world, Indian tribes still hadn't even the notion of what nations, kingdoms or city-states were.
>>61856278
Wew lad
But seriously as a percentage how paddys actually speak mick?
>>61856278
Are you from a Gaeltacht? How well can you speak it?
>>61856414
Not in the same sense as the rest of the world. Each tribe was it's own "nation" with its own land, settlements, culture, history, etc.
Many tribes in the south and southwest had stable settlements with permanent housing, agriculture, livestock, etc. while tribes in New England and the Great Plains were often nomadic hunter/gatherers.
Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran
I guess most people there can't read their ancient scripts.
>>61855925
What's Brazil?
Exactly
>>61856414
Only the ones in the US, Canada, and Brazil were truly savages. The others were kangz and sheeit and had built real civilizations, even if they were primitive by old world standards.
>>61855925
you might be surprised at how many americans can't read the constitution/DoI because it uses long esses
>>61856414
given geographical isolation and skilled leaders they could've developed into a real nation before being annexed, like hawaii
>>61855925
Are you just taking the piss?
It's a bilingual County. Signs, notices, documents, even a TV channel are in Irish.
>>61856278
Go raibh maith agat. Tá fuath an domhain agam nuair a feicim go bhfuil daoine ar an tsuíomh seo ag rá rudaí mar sin.
>>61855925
Quite sad isn't it?
>>61856278
Whoa this anon is steamed.
>>61855925
póg mo thóin
>>61856278
Yeah but be aware that you're a minority m8
>>61855925
Think of Paraguay and Bolivia OP. The majority of the population there is mixed of mostly indigenous blood and their main language is Spanish. Same goes for India, except they're pure breed. Not all forms of colonization replace the original population
>>61856976
>with an extensive historical and cultural background
I doubt he included colonies in that category.
>>61857241
>pig my groin
>>61857273
HAHA
>>61855925
Cucked hard by the English
Not even Wales was as cucked as hard as the Irish, they even have more Welsh speakers. Honestly it's just embarassing since Wales is the omega cucks
>>61855925
English is better.
>>61857345
It's not.
>>61857330
Yeah, Ireland got """cucked"""" so hard that it's a constituent country of the UK until this day
English is more straightforward
Mainly because of British occupation. It's also not taught in the best way anymore. I can't think of a teacher who teaches Irish to children who isn't insane.
Read this if you're really so curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Irish_language
>>61857392
>>61856900
There are still people that call themselves Assyrians and speak Aramaic
>>61857183
>Go raibh maith agat. Tá fuath an domhain agam nuair a feicim go bhfuil daoine ar an tsuíomh seo ag rá rudaí mar sin.
Man this looks nice and gives me goosebumps
>>61857362
The majority of Irish words are English in origin. Shop = siopai
Féach orm, táim ag labhairt Gaeilge. Ó a Dhia.
Fucking idiots in this country blame teachers and solely teaches. Learn it yourself.
Ní deacair í, i ndáiríre, tá sé níos éasca ná mBéarla i mo thuairim pearsanta. Is féidir libh, tá a fhios agam.
>>61857455
Cheers
>>61857330
This, I guess. Ireland suffered permanent damage from all the rape. I also heard that at least the Welsh fled to somewhere at the south of Argentina to escape the English assimilation.
>>61857498
Siopai is plural. Siopa = shop
>>61855925
Ostfriesland. Frisians (known to Romans and defeated Roman Legions) but lost their spoken language in the 19th century and speak Hochdeutsch now.
>>61857445
That's Yossarian. He's Assyrian.
>>61857455
If I would learn a UK language it'd be Irish and not Welsh.
>>61857542
There's a small colony of Welsh speakers in Argentina, though I don't know if they actually speak it anymore, but interesting history
>>61856000
They never had on language just a shit load of regional languages. Most speak English better than they speak Hindi.
>>61857548
But Frisian still exists in a small part of Dutchland. Though they're probably all bilingual in Dutch too, Frisian is their native language, unlike Irish speakers who have to learn it as a second language.
>>61857437
Why is this still allowed?
Are the northern irish really this cucked?
>>61856278
>Polish is the second most spoken language in Ireland, irish is the third
>>61857241
Kiss my Hole?
>>61855925
Bretons. French pigs oppressed them.
>>61857637
It's not the Northern "Irish" who are getting cucked. It's the rest of Ireland.
>>61857646
How is that surprising?
>>61857682
It's not surprising, but it's still embarrassing.
>>61857682
A lot, this is a unique level of cultural cuck
>>61857697
How?
>>61857455
It does look nice, but the pronunciation is very tricky. And maybe it's just an impression but sometimes it sounds vaguely ching-chong-ish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1la2k7gJn4
>>61857709
If I have to explain it then you won't understand anyway. If a concept as simple as your language being spoken by the majority of the population in your nation is lost on you then I shan't waste my time replying to you.
Why is every Brazilian I've met here a drug dealer?
That being said, Irish people can speak Irish. There's a difference between not knowing it and choosing not to.
>>61857764
Not to speak it*
>>61857637
They aren't """Northern Irish""". Ask any of them and they will say they are British.
>>61857619
Ehhh I guess. I just know muh heritage had stopped speaking their language even before my first patrilineal ancestor to come to this country was born. Sad since their one of two groups in the oldest written story in Northern Europe.
>>61857764
What is the relation between brazilian drug dealers and the thread? are you idiot?
>>61857637
Ireland is the one being cucked. Northern Irish people are little genetically Irish. Northern Ireland existed from a settlement of native Protestant English and Scottish people who took possession of the that area from the original Catholic inhabitants. That's why this even today most of the NI citizens consider themselves Brits instead of Irish
>>61857796
So what you're saying is... they are cucked
>>61857674
Hmm, i guess you're right in a way.
Ireland is the cucked husband and Northern Ireland can no longer live without british cock.
But in this case even the cucked husband has more pride left.
>>61857764
It might have something to do with your drug addiction
>>61857821
You.
>>61857821
OP hurt his feelings. The Irish of /int/ are so easily offended, holy shit.
>>61857827
Of course they consider themselves British, they are in Britain and they have British passports. They are British
>>61855925
it's just a case of larger and more advanced force destroys smaller force. It's happened to many people and cultures in history
Unrelated but does anyone else crack up at the mental image of a Brazilian living in a favela typing shit out in English on his computer to insult Irish people?
>>61857646
The Census found that 82,600 in Ireland speak Irish outside of school (where it is an obligatory subject). The CSO also reported that 119,526 speak Polish at home and 56,430 speak French.
In Gaeltacht areas (Irish speaking areas) 35 percent of people speak Irish on a daily basis.
In comparison to the last Census the number of Irish speakers is up by 7.1 percent with 1.77 million people saying they could speak Irish. This means 41.4 percent can actually speak the language but simply don’t.
So you say Polish is the second most spoken language? So what? Poles here, the older ones, have shite English and rather speak in their native tongue. We have a rather large Polish population, and Irish is not a fantastic tool of communication. Everything mainstream is in English, not irish. And so, the vast majority of us speak English.
However, in my circle of friends I know I can speak Irish with at least 8. None of us attended Gaelscoileanna or Gaeltachtaí, but we leaned from school and carried it on afterwards. I have other friends who can't speak it, and it's rude to speak affront of others in a language they can't understand. Now you do you understand why it's not the second most spoken?
>>61857949
I imagine they are rich Brazilians that are getting hyped to shitpost, once the maid comes with the hot pockets and coke of course.
We share a long history and heritage, Irish as a language still exists but Irish people do speak English a lot.
>>61857995
>>61857949
Nobody in favela can speak english, only some uper class people can, many rich people that i've known can't understand a shit in English
>>61857995
Why would i pay a maid to eat hot
pockets?
shm desu senpai
>>61857055
I do believe the Aztec Empire was quite advanced, just couldn't compete with the western powers due to the lack of plate armor and gunpowder
>>61858115
Everyone in Latin America seems to have a maid.
>>61858061
Is Spanish a more widespread second language in Brazil than English?
>>61858165
No, literally nobody can speak Spanish, English much more widespread, only in my state Spanish is more comom than english
>>61857749
irish is an archaic language and english is ireland's language now as sad as it sounds
>>61858155
and horses. Too bad they didn't have any elephants like Hannibal marching on Rome. That would have really freaked them out.
>>61857935
Yeah but they're ethnically and politically British people in Irish territory. That's why they hold British citizenship, etc. I was explaining the reason for that
>>61857990
Don't you have an TV channel entirely in Irish, a newspaper or something?
>>61858251
Northern Ireland being Irish territory now? When did that happen? First Brexit and now this, god they are having a bad time
>>61858280
Yes, TG4.
>>61858165
Nope. Though surrounded by Spanish speaking countries, we have little contact with them, unless you leave close to the borders (wich is an small fraction of the population). English is the most spoken second language here.
Unless you live in one of those ethnic towns in the south where they speak Italian, or German or Russian or something, but those are also a tiny minority
>>61855925
>an extensive historical and cultural background be unable to speak or even understand their own language?
You just described Manchu
>>61858325
Well before it was settled by the Brits, it was Irish territory, wasn't it?
>>61858207
>>61858343
Can't Portuguese speakers basically understand spoken Spanish anyways?
>>61858446
Yes, can understand, but can't speak spanish
>>61857330
Btw Scotland is incomparably more cucked than Ireland or Wales.
Out of 5 million Scots 57,000 are native speakers of Scottish Gaelic.
>>61858061
I love how Anglos always think all the "relevant" people in any country speak English (and fluent English at that).
>m-muh world language!!!
Nah.
>>61858482
Unlike Ireland, Scottish Gaelic isn't a native language to Scotland, though
Its true native language was wiped out long long ago
>>61858482
>>61858509
Also Scottish Gaelic was never a "native language" to the Scottish lowlands anyways, so the situation is completely different
>>61858509
>Its true native language was wiped out long long ago
You meant this?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictish_language
>>61858482
But in south scotland exist another language, Scots, much more popular than scottish gaelic
>>61858509
>Unlike Ireland, Scottish Gaelic isn't a native language to Scotland, though
What? Where did it come from then? Irish settlers? I thought it was a a dialect of the Gaellic, since they're very similar genetically.
>>61858446
Yes we can, but it's trickier to speak it properly. And it's not like we really need it. If I spoke in Portuguese with a Spanish guy and he spoke just in Spanish we'd still understand each other very well
>>61858356
Settled is the wrong term, There were never any British settlers
>>61858583
>What? Where did it come from then? Irish settlers?
Yes, Irish settlers in the middle ages brought Irish over and it evolved into that language. They mostly settled along the west coast and ... some other places I forget. The east coast was mainly populated by "Middle English" speakers that would develop into what is today called Scots of variations of English it gets complicated and politically awkward. The very northern part of Scotland was populated by Norse descendant languages but those went extinct in the 1800's I think which is a bit sad.
>>61858605
It's not what I've read m8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantations_of_Ireland
>>61856073
Nah there's Natives that can speak their language but based of which ones.
Inuit its guaranteed others it's like 20%
>>61856414
Iroquois Confederacy
