Yn Cheshaght Ghailckagh
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- Name
- Yn Cheshaght Ghailckagh
- Description
- The Manx Language Society, founded in 1899 by A.W. Moore — Speaker of the House of Keys, historian, the man whose History of the Isle of Man documented the crime with the restrained fury of someone who loves the thing that has been damaged. Its motto: Gyn chengey, gyn cheer — Without language, without country. The revival began before the last native speaker died. Brian Stowell began teaching and promoting Manx in the 1960s. Douglas Faragher's English-Manx dictionary introduced twentieth-century vocabulary to a language frozen in the nineteenth. In 2001, Bunscoill Ghaelgagh opened — the first primary school teaching entirely through Manx.
- Active Period
- 1899–present
- Also Known As
- Manx Language Society
- Place
- Isle of Man
- Period
- Modern Era
- Type
- Language
- Cultural Revival
- Society
- Book Chapter
- Chapter 18