Sinn Fein's enthusiasm for Irish is partly a response to a revival in the language.

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On a journey which takes him to Caerphilly, Cardiff and Newport in the South and to Caernarfon and Snowdonia in the North, Mukul Devichand finds that many Welsh people feel a heightened sense of identity and patriotism about the revival of a language most cannot speak.

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The revival of the Welsh language has become central to Wales's resurgent national identity.

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"There is certainly more interest now and support for speaking Zapotec, " adding that the revival of the Zapatec language is happening in places where it had been thought lost.

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