Native Speakers of Manx Gaelic

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Native Speakers of Manx Gaelic

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13 жыл бұрын

Meeting the native speakers. A series of videos produced by the Isle of Man newspapers

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@sulichnalednosandok8862 9 жыл бұрын

I am Polish, when I moved to Ireland I did not understand why Irish is not so popular in same parts of Ireland. I could not help my self and I made point to ensure my daughter knows Irish as good as possible. I am proud of her, she is fluent in Irish do the point that she can dream in Irish. She is fluent in Polish to .....Language is part of nation identity and she is part of Polish and Irish culture...

@cuchulainn8529 9 жыл бұрын

That is truly amazing.

@bruadair 9 жыл бұрын

Maith thú!

@emmetor 9 жыл бұрын

+Sulichna Ledno Sandok Thank you for posting this. I'm Irish, but I'm trying to teach my daugher some Polish. She speaks Irish, English and Spanish already.

@sulichnalednosandok8862 9 жыл бұрын

Your welcome and życzę powodzenia w nauce języka polskiego twojej córce . Polish is very difficult language, complicated grammar our diacritical marks can complicated life :)....good luck

@XXxvampiregirlx 8 жыл бұрын

Amazing :) thank you for helping the irish language survive im 18 and it breaks my heart that alot of people my age dont take an interest in language

@TheHorseOutside 2 жыл бұрын

I'm a fluent Irish speaker and I love being able to pick up on bits and pieces of Manx, it feels to Irish what Scots feels to English and I think that's really cool

@galaxydave3807 Жыл бұрын

Are you from Ireland? Is Irish also your native language?

@TheHorseOutside Жыл бұрын

@@galaxydave3807 I am from Ireland yes, but to call it my "native language" is complicated. It's the indigenous language of Ireland, yes, but I learned it after I learned English

@galaxydave3807 Жыл бұрын

@@TheHorseOutside Oh, ok! English got too important, or why was it your first language?

@TheHorseOutside Жыл бұрын

@@galaxydave3807 English is my first language because we were colonised for 800 years

@Azog150 Жыл бұрын

@@TheHorseOutside The earliest "English" colonisers from 800 years ago (who were actually more accurately described as Anglo-Normans and Cambro/Welsh-Normans and spoke French alongside English) soon began speaking Gaelic themselves and adopting Gaelic customs. This was much to the English Crowns displeasure. Active attempts to eradicate the Irish language came much later. Either way a massive tragedy, and hopefully it will grow again in Ireland.

@ashmckinlay1402 8 жыл бұрын

Manx is lucky, although the last true native speaker died in the 70s , it never fell completely out of use and knowledge and a wealth of recordings were made of the language, ensuring future revivalists can not just learn it fluent but also apply the correct accent and pronunciation. this is a safety rope that Cornish never had :(

@VulpesVulpes42 8 жыл бұрын

Did you know that 557 people claim Cornish as their main language (as of 2011)? There is even a Cornish daycare!

@ashmckinlay1402 8 жыл бұрын

+VulpesVulpes42 hey foxy Fox. I didn't know that but that's a comforting fact. I Would love to see Cornish find it's way into the local media as well. I hope the kiddies who know it carry the language on into adult life. one can hope.

@VulpesVulpes42 8 жыл бұрын

Ash Mckinlay According to Wikipedia, the number of Cornish speakers is actually growing (slowly though).

@ashmckinlay1402 8 жыл бұрын

+VulpesVulpes42 that's good to know :) it will be hard work but I know people who are dedicated can get it revived as a community language.

@mizf1659 4 жыл бұрын

My ancestors came from I.O.M and migrated to Canada..I've always wanted to visit the island and learn about the history an manx language..

@reidspeed77 2 жыл бұрын

Me to ,drusdale 🇦🇺☘💪

@mizf1659 2 жыл бұрын

@V B cool we should try to make it there one day 😁 especially for me now, my father passed last year 😔

@tbag8024 Жыл бұрын

I just found out tonight that my ancestors came from the Isle of Mann to Prince Edward Island. I'd love to go there and find distant relatives!

@mizf1659 Жыл бұрын

@@tbag8024 nice, heading to punta cana as we speak.. next travel.. I.O.M. FOR ME😍

@lynneforsyth687 10 жыл бұрын

My Great Aunt Hannah, spoke Manx Gaelic and lived in Douglas. My Mum was evacuated and stayed with her Aunt in Onchan. I lost Mum last year, she would always tell me the various phrases she learnt...I love it.

@Gachain 12 жыл бұрын

Go raith mile maith agatse le seans Gaeilge na Mhanann a chloisteail beo! Is Meiriceanach mise agus Ba mhaith liom e gach teanga Ceilteach a fanacht beo! Thank you very much for the chance to hear Manx Gaelic live! I am American and I would like every Celtic language to stay alive!

@DarkShroom 2 жыл бұрын

it's special you manage to preserve a language in such a small place but i have to admit that's gotta be difficult

@1323GamerTV 8 жыл бұрын

"Guys we need to record this dying language and it needs to be heard loudly and clearly" "Let's go outside next to the stop light on a windy day and I can record it with my iPhone" "You're a genius"

@brianmunich553 2 жыл бұрын

😂😂👍

@DarkShroom 2 жыл бұрын

not an iphone lol

@gozimusable1 6 ай бұрын

As an American; Scottish and Bavarian cross descent, i see people like this and i weep. I weep because weve come from such a long line that fought and struggled and maintained dignity, with humor, and kindness, and courage for millenia which is so difficult for young worlds like America, Australia and New Zealand to comprehend. The time back, the ancientness. Its too much for us young mortals to fully appreciate. 1500 years back seems impossible for our heritage to comprehend. Thank you, old man.

@hood3318 10 жыл бұрын

Very interesting stuff. I didn't even know IOM existed until today, or that it had it's own language. On a completely unrelated note, if you want a cheap laugh, turn on the automatic English Closed Captioning (via the small "cc" icon on bottom right of the video player) and view the translation text from 2:29 to 2:47 :P

@cherylbrowning3488 2 жыл бұрын

I was born in Liverpool but my moms whole family on both sides are from I o m. I too want to learn .

@learnmanx 2 жыл бұрын

You can find lots of different free resources for learning Manx on our website: www.learnmanx.com - go for it! Aigh vie - good luck!

@dackmont 5 жыл бұрын

Love how as the older gentleman gets going he falls more into that Gaelic cadence and "sing-song" sort of tone. So much character.... (Compare 2:05 with 2:27 onward)

@Xandermorph 11 жыл бұрын

Also, the genetic makeup of a people doesn't necessarily dictate what language that group speaks, and didn't even back then either. The Manx may have had Scandinavian, Celtic, and Anglo-Saxon genes, but the LANGUAGE they spoke is still quite Celtic in origin and derives directly from Middle Irish.

@OShaughnessyC 8 жыл бұрын

So similar to Irish Gaelic

@brucehorn9426 9 жыл бұрын

I LOVE IT! Thanks for putting this up!

@stephaniegrady8 Жыл бұрын

My grandmother was from Marown.

@54markl 9 жыл бұрын

Man means "mountain rising from the sea." It comes from Mannannan, whose son brought the Manx people here. King Arthur ended his days as a monk on the Calf of Man, and he is buried there.

@MajesticSkywhale 8 жыл бұрын

+54markl if he existed at all, which is hotly debated among historians :P

@NoNameThoughtOfYet 7 жыл бұрын

Mannannan MacLír Was The Irish Sea God… He Would Survey All The World On His 3 Legs (Hence The Triskelion On The Isle Of Man Flag) :-)

@cameronreekie6519 6 жыл бұрын

54markl I live on the island, and I can tell you that is not true . Sorry, cool as that sounds it’s false. We do have our own interesting history,and myths, that aren’t Arthur based

@FireRupee 5 жыл бұрын

If Man colonizes space, will they name the colony Mannannannmannan?

@Person01234 Жыл бұрын

This doesn't really make any sense. Manannan is the name of a sea god from old celtic mythology, and it's debatable whether he gave his name to the island or whether the island gave it's name to the god. As you also simultaneously said, it's a plausible (even probable) etymology that the island got it's name from old celtic words meaning "mountain" and then lent it's name to the sea god manannin, rather than the other way around.

@MrMiseeire 11 жыл бұрын

No, infact I´m from Donegal, but have lived the most of my life in Denmark.

@patrickmurphy9266 4 жыл бұрын

Jeg håber du taler lidt Irsk . Jeg boede I Amager femten år .

@PXWest 4 жыл бұрын

From what I understand Manx is more less Scottish Gaelic with heavy influences from Old Norse? Or whas the Norse influence more of a cultural one?

@colonialenglishman Жыл бұрын

Manx was made in Birmingham like all the good curries

@iconofsin5886 8 жыл бұрын

You people have some interesting languages.

@APheonixPretense8 7 жыл бұрын

Romeo Rodriguez we people: - ) all native language is beautifully diverse

@ManxyBoy1 12 жыл бұрын

I can speak Irish and I can understand a lot of his Manx! I've been to the Isle of Man many times and it's sad to see the Manx language is dying even quicker than Irish.

@bengunter1664 11 жыл бұрын

I wish i could talk Manx

@IamDaReAlSeaN 12 жыл бұрын

Tá Gaeilge íontach agat mo chara Meiriceánach! To the Manx people - On behalf of the Irish-speakers here, you have full-on support from us. Tuigimid bhur nGaeilge/Gaelgagh, agus tuigeann sibh ár nGaeilge/Gaelgagh. Ba mhaith liom Gaeilge na Mhannan a fhoghlaim nuair a táim críochnaithe le nGaeilge na hÉireann. Dearthaireacha agus Deirfiúreacha go deo!

@dago_0730 5 жыл бұрын

can irish speakers understand some of it?

@clockman5472 5 жыл бұрын

Some of it, yes.

@caoimheeee 4 ай бұрын

5 years late but uhm Yeah weirdly I feel that I can but at the same time no.. Tuigim cúpla focal, ach caithfidh mé a admháil mar cainteoir dúchais, nach bhfuil sé éasca.

@Madfattdeeb 11 ай бұрын

I wish someone would make a app/program to help me learn Manx.

@viperblitz11 9 ай бұрын

The duolingo bird is knocking at your door

@Madfattdeeb 9 ай бұрын

@@viperblitz11 That was the first place I checked. They don't have it.

@NoahNobody 10 жыл бұрын

Nice sounding language.

@themetalkiddo6753 2 жыл бұрын

Manx sounds very much like the Sims language

@ofaoilleachain Жыл бұрын

You wouldn't say so if you spoke a Goidelic language

@bppmurphy Жыл бұрын

Any language sounds like rubbish if you don't speak it. I'm sure some could say the same about English

@theworldvideos1 13 жыл бұрын

There is on youTube of Ned Maddrell speaking in Manx, although in audio form !!!

@CobinRain 12 жыл бұрын

thanks Irish...I thought it was but didnt want to get it wrong. I am of partly Manx descent and remain amazed how little British people know about the Isle of Man. I mean, like nothing past the TT races and, maybe, cats with no tails. And yes, I am delighted that kids learn manx in school. AND at home. And you can hear Manx spoken more and more. There's a pub is Peel...great for manx conversation/music. Google for it. Brian(on the vid sometimes appears with a squeeze box) Go try out yr Irish..

@76BlueLions 12 жыл бұрын

Some of the Manx language is the same, and then it’s also different. Like Portuguese and Spanish. The British historian Nora Chadwick in her book explains why the Manx are different then the Celts. The Manx are actually Scandinavians.

@MrMiseeire 12 жыл бұрын

OK, I´m no expert in the field. I know that at the battle of Clontarf in 1014, there were Vikings from Man, who fought on the side of the Danes against the Irish. But it was quite a battle and there were vikings from Scandanavia involved. But to presume that the Manx were scandanavians, I set a very big question mark. I speak fluent Danish and can communikate with swedes and Normans through our common tongue. Island and the faroe islands speak ancient nordic but Manx is a gaelic language.

@IamDaReAlSeaN 12 жыл бұрын

A ground-shaking approach will be needed, hopefully get enough heads together like the auld' Welsh did. With the massive and ever-increasing demand for gaelscoileanna and bilingual schools, I am sure many English-medium schools will even begin to phase in bilingualism. Considering the educational benefit, employment oppurtunities and newfound prestige in the language, there's reason enough to.

@CobinRain 12 жыл бұрын

well, we like the same films for sure.Brian is perhaps my fav. As an ex-publicschool boy this scene made me laugh almost hysterically the first time I saw it (and of course every other time since) as centurion holds poor Brian by he ear saying "Romanum? Romanum?" Why is it that I still associate both pain and bewilderment wth words like "vocative"? Cheers.

@CobinRain 12 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Yeah, I did know a lot of the younger generation of Irish teachers(they used to come to events in Wales)and they said the same. Irish was being turned into latin by state policy!(dead language that kids forced to learn in school). In fact watching what was happening in Ireland really(I think)informed the "Welsh is fun" approach. It seems to be working. In Man, I think, Manx is NOT compulsory in school-you opt in--and people do in increasing numbers, including "come-overs". Gotta be good

@CobinRain 12 жыл бұрын

To me that is wonderful. I'd like to hear it. Do you pick it up on line?

@willchangename.5308 11 жыл бұрын

buíochas a ghabháil leat agus beannacht

@CobinRain 12 жыл бұрын

A better way to look at it that parent- to -child language transmission hiccoughed in 1974. But what Brian Stowell is saying here is that manx youth--young people-- back in the 50s and 60s sought out older adults who were NOT their parents but were also Manx and begged them to teach them the language. Which they did. These then went on to teach manx to their kids. So it isnt right to say the last native speaker died in 1974. There are now lots of kids who speak manx--learned from their parents

@copyvio 12 жыл бұрын

To be fair I know of a German rapper who raps in German, Yiddish, Hebrew and English, but that's more the novelty exception that proves the rule.

@CobinRain 12 жыл бұрын

It is amazing isnt it? There is also at least one viking longship boat grave--near Castletown if I remember right. Literal dna and cultural scandinavian dna in the people's fine independent and egalitarian view of the world. Great place, really.

@kthunder079 7 жыл бұрын

I'm proud to be irish. You dont see it in my eyes? Manx? Its okay.. I'm a rare breed.

@cameronreekie6519 7 жыл бұрын

Brian is my old manx teacher, sorry Brian but it was too hard!x

@CrackaPackify 11 жыл бұрын

Good for you

@smithmeister Жыл бұрын

Hyfryd, mor hyfryd!

@nikkusamagothique 6 жыл бұрын

that will be cool if the Gaulish and Galatian-Celtic language would be revived

@MrMiseeire 11 жыл бұрын

Sorry, but I´ve gotta answer you in "Bearla".I think I understand your Southern Irish. The fada is situated on my key board directly below f12. Press it before pressing the vokal. We have 9 vocals here as opposed to 5 in English. Dia dhuit..

@MacDonaldSeumas 12 жыл бұрын

Aren't they Norse-Gaels, like the ones that were in Lewis or Harris? So ethnically they are more native but with Germanic influences and the same with the culture?

@copyvio 12 жыл бұрын

Yeah that's like this clip you can find on here about Irish-Americans learning an Ghaeilge in Boston. That doesn't mean Irish is "alive and well" in Boston.

@barnbersonol 13 жыл бұрын

I flicked thru "Manx is fun" once. Christ, it makes french, german etc look so easy! case endings, mad spelling system, mutations, irregular verbs, 50 ways of forming plurals,(that's the "fun" version), it's an absolute horror & any 1 who can learn it is an iron-willed genius.

@MarkRobertCuthbert 12 жыл бұрын

@ManxyBoy1 - Irish (Gaeilge) is not dying

@CobinRain 12 жыл бұрын

thanks for the link. I speculated on Romanian because I think it got rather cut off from Rome in a sea of greek speakers and so may have been more the undisturbed latin brought by Trajan's army. altho we have to remember that half at least of any Roman army was made up of non italians wo were taught latin when they joined up( like La legion francaise which does even allow french recruits.) reckon the latin that soldiers brought to Britain was like that--and evolved here then died out. Sad,eh?

@windstorm1000 12 жыл бұрын

@yurismir1 that should be evident to you if you know another language. people look at things through different anguages differently. there is also the world view, the customs, the stories, cuisine, syntax, the mythos---I could go on and on.

@willchangename.5308 11 жыл бұрын

are you from the ilse of man

@copyvio 12 жыл бұрын

I look at healthily multilingual countries like Malta and Luxembourg as examples, but their situation is the exact opposite - their local tongues are well entrenched as most people's everyday language, with near-universal bilingualism in an international language. Since the local language of Ireland is in fact English, and Irish is just kind of hanging around like a vestigal tail, maybe it should be left to die in peace.

@sutmae1 12 жыл бұрын

@scottdebuitleir It's true, the younger guy harddly says anything, nevertheless his accent seems more accurate to my untrained ears. At least he rolls his 'r's, it's a bit of a sham trying to speak a Celtic language without doing at least that much, it's completely out of line with the traditional sytax, lol

@MrMiseeire 11 жыл бұрын

tá mé go maith, gorra maith agatsa. Ca dema tá tú? Nil morán gaeilge agam anois.

@MrMiseeire 12 жыл бұрын

It sounded like gaelige to me. Go ndeirigh an bhothair leat a chara.

@MrMiseeire 11 жыл бұрын

i disagree. I speak fluent Danish and understand Norwegian and Swedish, but Manx sounds Celtic.

@willchangename.5308 11 жыл бұрын

dia diut mo chara

@MacDonaldSeumas 12 жыл бұрын

So basically all they left were soe genetic and written traces. Would make sense since I read the Vikings basically excluded the natives, then the vikings left.

@copyvio 12 жыл бұрын

So? One could make the same claim about Spanish, Italian, or, God forbid, Japanese... really almost any language on Earth. Still, no one could be taken seriously who made the claim "Spanish is dying"

@cteasdale1979 Жыл бұрын

Same as Welsh.

@willchangename.5308 11 жыл бұрын

conas ata tu

@icygood101 12 жыл бұрын

They were, to a large extent, because of domination. Regarding your other comment: It's really useless for anyone to insist on keeping cultures separate today, for its own sake, in my opinion, and separating populations and that. In our changing world at least, it strikes me as irrelevant, even arrogant in essence. Not that it's in bad faith per se but you've got to admit some people propose it with bigoted hearts. Aside: as a native Portuguese speaker a number of words I use are derived from

@copyvio 12 жыл бұрын

"Well the Israelis made Hebrew a modern language" It should be remembered that they almost literally had to kick the living shit out of another language (Yiddish) to do it.

@brianmunich553 2 жыл бұрын

What do you mean by that?

@possiblyijt7400 2 жыл бұрын

@@brianmunich553 When Israel was established (but also in the decades prior, when Jews started moving to Mandatory Palestine in large numbers), the Zionist groups thought that in order to unite the Jewish people and shed their diasporic influences, Hebrew should become the language of the Jews again. The downside to this was that a lot of people basically bullied and forced those who wanted to speak other languages (for example yiddish, ladino, the jewish arabic dialects, etc) to speak hebrew and would sometimes raid yiddish theatres, scold children for not speaking Hebrew, and do other things like that. This meant that families stopped passing down Yiddish, Ladino, and other languages to avoid societal criticsm and pressure, meaning that now the languages are basically dead outside of the elderly and (for yiddish) Hasidic Jews. Stuff like the holocaust and migration of jews outside of their hometowns also speeded it up.

@jbutta1285 12 жыл бұрын

@windstorm1000 that's what happens when a country bent on world domination comes about and forces their ways on people.

@76BlueLions 11 жыл бұрын

The language is derived from Turkey, Galicia Turkey is the land that the Gaulic peoples originated from. These days no people are speaking the original dialect any longer. Even Ireland is speaking a invented version of Gaulic.

@RealCanuckian 7 жыл бұрын

מיכאל השר של היהודים You are incorrect. The Celts originated in Europe and spread into that region. The fact that Romans called the region in Europe Gaul is where the Galatian Celts got tbeir name.

@RealCanuckian 10 жыл бұрын

An invented language? Where did you go to school?

@brucehorn9426 9 жыл бұрын

not 'invented' - revived! :-)

@screachog-reilige 7 жыл бұрын

RealCanuckian ignoramus

@RealCanuckian 7 жыл бұрын

The Hound prefers chicken Manx is not a made up language.

@RealCanuckian 7 жыл бұрын

I see the message I replied to is now gone.

@IntroSpectre6x3 7 жыл бұрын

Gorgum: I don't think you know what fictional means. English exists. Ergo English is not fictional.

@CobinRain 12 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I think most of the things that seemed so sure a generation ago are tumbling before better science. Take England. History books tell us the "English" were a germanic people who invaded Britain in the 5th century, killed all the natives and drove the rest into Wales and Cornwall. But archaeology and dna now reveal a new truth: the "English" are also "celts" with some germanic input of course. And so there is a continuity core of people in England since the neolithic. --4000 years ago.

@galileor.cuevas9739 6 жыл бұрын

I am Mexican and sadly I do not speak any Native American language fluently. Nevertheless, I'm learning Nahuatl and I have learned some Irish before. I love it!

@seanosull2884 5 жыл бұрын

Tá sé sin an-cool! He aprendido Espanol y me encanta pero tengo miedo que los idiomas nativos de sud America van a morir. Espero que no. Táim an sásta go bhfuil daoine ó tíre eile ag foghlaim Gaeilge. Is trua nach bhfuil an meas céana don teanga ag gach duine anseo.

@soooslaaal8204 4 жыл бұрын

I and Peruvian and I’m trying to learn Quechua for that same reason

@coralarch 9 жыл бұрын

My grandfather watched the making of the 1916 film "The Manxman". He told me that he always made sure he tossed an offering to the water spirits when crossing any bridges in Man....despite being officially an atheist!

@coralarch 7 жыл бұрын

***** I said "officially", not "full-blown". I dare say that quite a few atheists say "touch wood" or similar superstitious charms. It's force of habit.

@coralarch 7 жыл бұрын

***** Touching wood has its origins in the belief that deities resided in trees.

@ShivW14 9 жыл бұрын

Sounds really beautiful...similar sounding to Irish, which is cool :)

@KateArete 6 жыл бұрын

I have a Manx breed cat and I try to talk to him with a Manx Gaelic accent haha! I am a weird American, yes.

@cherryred1732 Жыл бұрын

O aye. Love the manx cat . Rumpy . Sometimes see a classic ginger one in and around peel. But not very many about these days.

7 жыл бұрын

This is very similar to Irish... even more similar than Scottish Gaelic Did you know the Isle of Man is named after Gaelic sea deity Manannan Mac Lír?

@calebmacmoyer4450 5 жыл бұрын

Legend is that the Isle of Man was ripped from Ulster by the Gods and thrown into the sea.

@mscoolgirl798 5 жыл бұрын

That's because, out of the celtic branch of languages, Irish, Scots Gaelic and Manx are Goidelic languages and are closely related to each other, in comparison to the Brythonic Cornish and Welsh

@54markl 9 жыл бұрын

The Manx people are the descendants of the Tuatha De Danaan, who were driven from Ireland by the Sons of Mil.

@mizelous6558 7 жыл бұрын

I found out my great grand parents are from here and migrated in 1902.. interesting.. makes me wanna come. even visit as I'm doing my family tree and discovered some cool stuff!

@pauline5248 9 жыл бұрын

I often wondered what spoken Manx sounded like. Good to hear it. (The speaker sounds slightly scouse (Liverpool)) I'm all in favor of reviving this language.

@nigelsheppard625 5 жыл бұрын

Scouse is a Welsh dialect. If you listen to native Welsh speakers from Alun and Deeside speaking in English it's the Scouse accent also just slightly further south in Wales if you hear native Welsh speakers they will have the Stoke on Trent accent.

@notinuseanymore1352 5 жыл бұрын

I live in the Isle of Man!

@brianmunich553 2 жыл бұрын

I wish I did too ur lucky to live in such a beautiful place

@jackjft9654 5 жыл бұрын

Isle of Mann’s language is Gaelic (Irish family) the accent is northern English, it has been conquered by England, Scottish and Ireland. But the people there have a large Scandinavian ancestry, talk about one multi-cultured place.

@MississippiMike 12 жыл бұрын

@soupdragon151 Irish, Scottish and Manx Gaelic are related, but as related as Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese, for example, are. While the first group are Goidelic languages, the second group are Latin languages, which, needless to say, does not make them "the same languages with different accents". I'm Scottish-American but I can also speak Portuguese and Spanish - they are very similar, but different languages that cannot be used interchangeably without major confusion.

@Engineergoddess 12 жыл бұрын

how neat. I recently traced my ancestry back to the Isle of Man, so just nifty

@TheMaxKids Жыл бұрын

Me too

@CobinRain 12 жыл бұрын

No, I meant Latin taught as a dead language--fixed and unchanging because it had become the language of the church. But taught to generations of schoolboys because "it was good for us". It was for me; I loved. I can remember someone tackling a particularly good latin master with the usual "why do we have to learn a dead language" to which he replied: " it isnt: it's just that nowadays we call it Spanish, French, Romanian, Italian etc. Impressed this 15 year old swot no end.

@CainoGS 5 жыл бұрын

I speak fluent Gaelic but Manx is a old Celtic / Gaelic language

@IamDaReAlSeaN 12 жыл бұрын

I agree with your point that the teaching of Irish is failing school children, and must be corrected. Research has shown that the methods of language teaching in academic settings is not actually conducive to acquiring a language. The problem is, it's hard to get a narrow-minded, apathetic government to listen, who don't want to have to fork out to train good quality teachers that can teach a language to fluency. Considering we learn it for 14 years in school, it really shouldn't be that hard.

@talideon 12 жыл бұрын

@scottdebuitleir It's not quite as simple as that. The Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic languages form a dialect continuum. Thus, it's trivial for speakers of neighbouring dialects to understand one another, and not difficult for those further separated to understand one another, minor grammatical and vocabulary differences aside. What makes them considered different languages is that they've developed distinct literary standards since the decline of Classical Gaelic.

@windstorm1000 12 жыл бұрын

It is sooo sad when a language is allowed to perish. It leaves the world less rich.

@ronruddick2972 6 жыл бұрын

Manx... You had me at the colors.

@OriginalSoundtrack 9 жыл бұрын

2:05 There you have

@gabhanachdenogla898 6 жыл бұрын

he appears in a new documentary on tg4 aired last week - www.tg4.ie/ga/player/baile/?pid=5713805855001&teideal=Turas%20H%C3%BAic%C3%A9ara&series=Turas%20H%C3%BAic%C3%A9ara&dlft=33

@lynneforsyth687 10 жыл бұрын

I wish that I could learn it, it is part of my own heritage, Mum's father was Manx x

@PedroPaulo-ij5id 10 жыл бұрын

Try to learn it alone! I am trying to learn scottish gaelic on the internet. You could do the same with manx!! And I am sorry for your mom...

@76BlueLions 12 жыл бұрын

The British historian Nora Chadwick in her book The Celts: Page 44 states that the Manx were the indigenous Scandinavian peoples that had later began to speak the language of their rulers the Gaelic Celtic. The Gaels migrated to Briton and conquered the Isles, the Manx later began to ally with the Romans and the then began to make an even more distorted version of Gallic. The Manx are Scandinavian peoples indigenous to Briton.

@learnmanx 13 жыл бұрын

It takes effort but it's not that difficult!

@MrMiseeire 11 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the correction. Its almost 50 years since Ive had Irish and have in the mean time, learned a few other languages and speak a foreign tongue with my wife, adult son and daughter.

@PaulWelsh89 11 жыл бұрын

as an irish-american, this interests me. but all the celtic languages are so hard to learn! great vidya

@CobinRain 12 жыл бұрын

Fab..thank you! In fact I just looked on youtube and there are a few programmes there--incl made for telly. So interesting. Of course I could only understand one word in 5! And I was really interested in how "italian" it sounded. I suppose that is explained by the role of the church taking over latin. But a sort of logic tells me that the purer forms of the latin that was spoken might well be in the remoter parts of empire, like Rumania? I would love to hear even one sentence of "British latin"

@IamDaReAlSeaN 12 жыл бұрын

Exactly, and we can do it too, as long as we apply lessons learned from the Welsh, Basques, Galicians and others into an Irish context. I would plan on sending my future children to naíonraí (Irish nurseries) and gaelscoileanna for the educational benefits first and foremost, but also because if they learn Irish, they will be able to grasp other languages with more ease. Plus, if all else fails for them, a cushy job as an Irish government translator would always be on the table :)

@patrickmurphy9266 4 жыл бұрын

Long live Manx 💪

@soupdragon151 12 жыл бұрын

@scottdebuitleir so does a langauge depend on accent then? Is American English not English then, because it's spoken with an American accent?

@CobinRain 12 жыл бұрын

yes. Good point. The Isle of Man has had a parliament--a "thing" (common to all scandinavians cultures)for 1000 years. Man is NOT part of the UK or the EU. And the Queen is not the Queen...has some other title. But the Norse language left virtually no trace that I know of in the Manx Language except for place names. However, the Island boasts a fabulous collection of vikiing runestones..worth a visit to see. theory is: vikings came without women and married Manx girls from the off.

@RealCanuckian 7 жыл бұрын

After reading some of the comments on this video I feel the need to correct several errors. Many on here have called Manx a made up language. Incorrect, it is a revived language. Also Gaul was a region of Europe and had a lot of Celtic tribes. One or several of those tribes moved to the middle east and the region became known as Galatia. Celts were European.