What is the oldest language in the world?
<p>Months ago, Gaston Dorren, author of the blog <em>Language Writer</em> and the book <em>Lingo</em> (which I highly recommend!), <a href="https://languagewriter.com/2017/10/21/irish-between-very-old-language-and-1943-political-construct" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">told us how he got into a Twitter discussion between two Irishmen</a>: a Unionist and a Republican… The Unionist said that the Irish language was an invention of the 20th century. It got heated, and the other man fired: shut up, man! Irish is older than English!</p>
<p>There are also discussions like this further south. Not long ago I saw (and got involved in) a very heated discussion between some Galicians and a mad Portuguese twitterer who insisted that Galician was invented in the nineteenth century! One of the Galicians answered back, in a “hold me back!”-manner, that Galician is older than Portuguese.</p>
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