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Originally Posted by Quoth
You lost me.
But even in the 1950s compared to Israel the revival of Irish is a disaster. Today not ONE Irish local council does its meetings in Irish. Wales is more successful. There are Welsh councils that use Welsh.
Irish people themselves suppressed Irish in the 18th and 19th C in the belief that being Native English speakers would be more advantageous. Irish names have revived. But the Irish language is dying. There are more native Polish speakers here.GFA!
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Thanks for the correction - my comment was motivated by appearances from the outside, apologies. I have no idea what the Māori equivalent of "Prime Minister" or "Deputy Prime Minister" would be, but from what I know of NZ, I do think the cries of outrage would be deafening if they went with local versions like Ireland has with Taioseach and Tánaiste.