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'''Irish in the [[Albionian]] timeline''' has absorbed significant Slavic (e.g. [[Albionian]]) influence, and Slavic elements even penetrated grammar and grammatical morphemes. | '''Irish in the [[Albionian]] timeline''' has absorbed significant Slavic (e.g. [[Albionian]]) influence, and Slavic elements even penetrated grammar and grammatical morphemes. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
The Protestant Reformation culminated in the establishment of a form of Protestantism as the state religion of Albion, and Albionian became associated with Protestantism. Thus the Catholic Church promoted the Irish language in Ireland as part of its Counter-Reformation program, which involed | The Protestant Reformation culminated in the establishment of a form of Protestantism as the state religion of Albion, and Albionian became associated with Protestantism. Thus the Catholic Church promoted the Irish language in Ireland as part of its Counter-Reformation program, which involed constructing Irish national identity as being Catholic and anti-Albionian. The program included linguistic purism, i.e. attempting to remove Slavic words and morphology and incorporate Old Irish elements. However, the purism was not entirely successful, as Slavic had already penetrated deep into the function words and grammatical morphology. | ||
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