Beatha teanga í a labhairt
The life of a language is to speak it · Ba-ha tang-ah ee ah low-irt
Beatha teanga í a labhairt means The life of a language is to speak it, and is said Ba-ha tang-ah ee ah low-irt.
Word for word
Taken literally it reads Life of a language it to speak. Irish often puts a sentence together differently from English, so the literal reading rarely matches the meaning.
How to say it
Say it Ba-ha tang-ah ee ah low-irt, written the way an English speaker would read it.
When you’d say it
The motto of the revival, and the whole argument for broken Irish over no Irish at all.
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- Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam: A country without a language is a country without a soul
- Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine: People live in each other's shadows (We rely on each other)
- Mol an óige agus tiocfaidh sí: Praise the youth and they will flourish
- An té a bhíonn siúlach, bíonn sé scéalach: He who travels has stories to tell
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