Manx Gaelic leid
Appearance
(Reguidit frae Manx Gaelic)
Manx Gaelic leid (Gaelg) is a Celtic leid spak in the Isle o Man an is pairt o the Goidelic group.[1] It dee'd oot as a mither tongue in the 1940s[2] but haes syne been resurrectit bi scholars an is spak by mibbe as mony as 2,000 fowk. The leid is sib wi Erse leid an Scots Gaelic. It uises a different writin seestem mair akin tae the Inglis leid, Scots leid an Welsh leid anes raither nor the Gaelic ane.
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References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (David Crystal, editor); Cambridge University Press, 1987; p. 302: "The movement of the Goidelic peoples continued from Ireland into the Isle of Man... From about the 10th century... doubtless Manx Gaelic began to diverge"
- ↑ The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (David Crystal, editor); Cambridge University Press, 1987; p. 303: "The Isle of Man was wholly Manx-speaking until the 18th century... the last mother-tongue speakers died in the late 1940s"