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Irish vs Ukrainian, locally-named languages of Central Asian ex-Soviet republics

  • 10-03-2015 09:40PM
    #1
    davwain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 94 ✭✭


    Throughout the post-Soviet history of Ukraine and each of the Central Asian ex-Soviet republics, the languages named after those very republics each have, at worst, about the same # of native speakers as as all Celtic languages put together. Throughout most of those ex-Soviet republics, Russian is (like English on Ireland island) likely to remain an important language of business for a very long time.

    The Irish education system can learn from what its counterparts in Ukraine and the Central Asian ex-Soviet republics have done to keep the languages named after those ex-Soviet republics very much living languages. I consider Western Ukraine as that country's equivalent to a Gaeltacht, although Ukraine has just one official language at the national level (Ukrainian) vs. the Republic of Ireland (Gaelic and English). Long live Irish Gaelic, Ukrainian, Turkmen, Tajik, Uzbek, Kazakh and Kygryz.
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