Iwasfrozen wrote: » When did I ever say the previous population was exterminated? Please try and read the conversation before you label people's posts are "crap". My post was in response to a poster who claimed Irish was our original language.
Iwasfrozen wrote: » The Ceide fields in Mayo prove that Ireland has been inhabited since at least 3,500 BC Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland#Prehistoric_Ireland The Indo-European languages (of which Irish belongs) didn't arrive in Ireland until around 1000BC Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages Irish is not the original language of Ireland like you claimed.
thecatspjs wrote: » What language did the dinosaurs speak?
Frank Lee Midere wrote: » Why would a language disappear unless it was due to an external threat. English want the ancestral language of people who live now in the Enhland and were there 1,500 years ago. They spoke some britonic language or Latin. Because the Anglo Saxons came....
Bambi wrote: » if you want play the contrarian prick game, we could start pointing out the use of the term "ireland" is not relevant to what was going on 3500 years ago
Bambi wrote: » if you want play the contrarian prick game
Iwasfrozen wrote: » Trade, a change in culture, migration of celtic speakers who brought new technologies. Maybe there was fighting, it's before recorded time so our knowledge of he period is scarce. But we definitely know Irish was not the original language of Ireland which was the reason for this little side track in the first place.
Filibuster wrote: » The North has enough problems without gaelgoir terrorists sticking their boot in.
Iwasfrozen wrote: » Irish is a celtic language, the first Irish spoken in Ireland was primitive Irish, the language written on ogham stones. No one knows what language(s) people spoke before the celts came but it wasn't Irish.
Skylinehead wrote: » Maybe they just want their own language instead:http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/Visit-and-Learning/Information-Leaflets/Ulster-Scots/ :pac:
Charles Rocher wrote: » What the hell is up with that? It's like 'let's spell English funny and present it as a language'.
Skylinehead wrote: » Bizarre isn't it? Nearly reads like phonetic English in the heaviest Northern Irish accent possible.
Charles Rocher wrote: » Just ignore. He gets his kicks out of trying to wind up anyone remotely Nationalist or Republican. It's a pretty sad way of getting a buzz out of life really.
Frank Lee Midere wrote: » No we don't. No language is absolutely replaced without invasion. You've just linked to two unrelated wiki entries to prove a ridiculous position. Even if people in Ireland adapted to indo European languages so much that peope in 1000 bc would not understand people in 0 AD that's generally a language evolution. As for the northern colonialist who doesn't like the indigenous people and their language, of course not.
feargale wrote: » Yes, and nobody knows what language was spoken here before the unknown pre-Celtic language arrived. And Welsh or something akin to it was spoken in England before the Anglo-Saxons arrived. Wait, I think we're onto something - Welsh as their language ( the English, I mean.)
Iwasfrozen wrote: » Exactly, to say Irish is the original language people spoke here is frankly ridiculous.
Bambi wrote: » For someone basing an argument on utter pedantry, your making an obvious mistake He said "irish is our original language" not "irish is the original language people spoke here" given that "we" are irish and not ****ing formorian or whatever you want to call some stone age mong, he is correct and you're talking out of your hoop Do carry on lads.
