Manx Gaelic
- Item sets
- Language
- Name
- Manx Gaelic
- Description
- The native language of the Isle of Man, a Goidelic Celtic language closely related to Irish and Scottish Gaelic. Spoken on the Island since at least the fifth century. By the eighteenth century, the vast majority of the population spoke Manx: of 20,000 people, few knew English. The language was the medium through which the island knew itself. Without it, the identity survived but in diminished form, like a landscape seen through glass. The first printed book in Manx was Wilson's Coyrle Sodjeh in 1707. The complete Bible was finished in 1772, seven years after the Revestment. The language went from universal to extinct in two hundred years. Ned Maddrell, the last native speaker, died in 1974. But the revival began before he died, and by 2011, 1,823 people claimed some ability in Manx. UNESCO reclassified it from extinct to critically endangered.
- Also Known As
- Gaelg
- Place
- Isle of Man
- Period
- Celtic and Pre-Norse Period
- Norse Kingdom of Mann and the Isles
- The Stanley Lordship
- The Trading Era
- The Revestment
- Crown Administration
- Emigration and Diaspora
- Constitutional Recovery
- Modern Era
- Type
- Language
- Identity
- Source
- Multiple sources