We publish in endangered languages so the myths and folklore carried in them survive in the tongue that made them. The evidence, the two Celtic languages that came back from extinction, and the standard we hold our references to.
Seven new pages of Manx: the alphabet, greetings, numbers, days, family and colours. Every word traced to Cregeen 1835 or Kelly 1866, and every pronunciation to a named source.
Manx and Irish are not the same language, and neither is a dialect of the other. They are sisters. Here is what they share and what sets them apart.
Gyn chengey, gyn cheer: without a language, without a country. How Manx nearly died, and what the Isle of Man almost lost with it.
In 1974 the last native speaker of Manx died and the experts called the language extinct. The children of the Isle of Man had other ideas.
