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Originally Posted by demonrail666

I might be wrong but I don't think there's any issue with timing, t's just taken until now for the parties involved to strike a deal. Believe it or not, a major sticking point has been whether the Irish language should have equal status in NI with English.

i believe it, and it makes perfect sense within the logic of those 2 parties and their objectives. one party wants reunification with the republic, the other wants loyalty to the english crown, it’s symbolic but it’s political.

the first spanish grammar (nebrija’s) was dedicated to queen isabella (yes, in 1492 also) with a prologue that mentioned “language has always been companion to empire.” this is right when “castilian” started to become simply “spanish”.

e.g. see: https://dle.rae.es/

or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langua...rancoist_Spain

language is political! and what constitutes a language or a dialect is more political than linguistic.

today see: catalonia. last century: basque country. but hey, galicians speak basically portuguese and i don’t think they want to split from spain.