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"It is the language of the Greeks! It has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language. In its ancient form, it is the language of classical ancient Greek literature and the New Testament of the Christian Bible."

"Linguistic genocide has frequently been used throughout history to systematically eradicate languages for one reason or another. Sometimes it's to assert the authority of a ruling power, sometimes it's an attempt to assimilate an ethnic minority, and sometimes it's to provide "linguistic unity." In modern times (the past 200 years, for this list) it has been a major cause for the decline of a number of languages"

"Anyone fully or derived from the Irish or supporters of the Irish, feels a great sense of pride in their heritage, and just enjoys a party, drink and all that, and has an interest in the history, language, land, people ect "

"The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to build a publicly accessible digital library of human languages."