Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam
A country without a language is a country without a soul · Cheer gon tang-ah, cheer gon on-um
Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam means A country without a language is a country without a soul, and is said Cheer gon tang-ah, cheer gon on-um.
Word for word
Taken literally it reads Country without language, country without soul. Irish often puts a sentence together differently from English, so the literal reading rarely matches the meaning.
How to say it
Say it Cheer gon tang-ah, cheer gon on-um, written the way an English speaker would read it.
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