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Language match for Irish #331

Open olcsheehan opened 1 year ago

olcsheehan commented 1 year ago

Hello all,

Sorry to keep bombarding, but I wonder if Irish English (iris1255) would be a better language match than Irish (iris1253) for the society ‘Irish’ (Cg3, xd543). The focal year for this society is 1930. In the 1926 census only 18% of the population of the Irish Free State reported even being able to speak Irish.

Best wishes,

Oliver Sheehan

hrncirv commented 1 year ago

Hi @olcsheehan, I understand that Irish English is better in terms of most speakers, but on the other hand, in terms of history and phylogeny, most Irish people were probably descendants of people speaking Irish/Celtic languages not English/Germanic.

I asked Harald Hammarström who was involved in the creation of D-PLACE, and he also thinks that the principle should be the historical language.