context: The written history of the Irish language goes back to the thirteenth century. Irish is such an old language of education that the "present-day" language is thought to date back to the 12th century. The classical neo-Newer era lasted until the 17th century, when the English-speaking Irish were crushed by the English and replaced it by English-speaking immigrants. During the classical neo-Rumanian period the language was very strictly standardized and was used primarily for sophisticated poems. After the 17th century, Irish literary use ceased almost entirely, and when cultural nationalism revived the language in the late 19th century, the struggle for dialects delayed standardization. Still in our days, the differences between the Ulster dialects and the more southern forms of language are causing a flurry of literary norms.
question: When was the Irish language born?
answers.text: 12th century