| Also Known As: Manx Gaelic,Gailck,Gaelg,Manx language
Description:
Manx (native name Gaelg or Gailck, pronounced [ɡilk] or [ɡilɡ]), also known as Manx Gaelic, is a Goidelic language spoken on the Isle of Man. The last native speaker, Ned Maddrell, died in 1974, but in recent years it has been the subject of language revival efforts, and it is now the medium of education at the Bunscoill Ghaelgagh, a primary school for four- to eleven-year-olds in St. John's, Isle of Man.
Manx is a Goidelic language, closely related to Irish and Scottish Gaelic. Its orthography is unlike either Irish or Scottish Gaelic, both of which are modernised variants of the orthography of Classical Gaelic and which therefore clearly show both the pronunciation as well as the derivation of words. The Manx orthography was constructed so as to show the pronunciation of words, resulting in a phonetic spelling system, at least from the point of view of English speakers, though from the point of view of Irish/Scots Gaelic speakers, it is an unfamiliar system of spelling. Foreign loan words are primarily Norse, English or French. Manx-language books were not printed until the beginning of the eighteenth century, and there was no Manx-English dictionary until the nineteenth century...... full article at Wikipedia |
