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3 days ago · Hiberno-English (/ h aɪ ˈ b ɜːr n oʊ, h ɪ-/ hy-BUR-noh, hih-; from Latin: Hibernia "Ireland") or Irish English (IrE), also formerly sometimes called Anglo-Irish, is the set of English dialects native to the island of Ireland, including both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
3 days ago · The third published edition of an anonymous Middle English translation of Christine de Pisan’s L’Epistre d’Othéa, a story based in the legend of Troy, is edited from a single surviving fifteenth-century manuscript (London, British Library, MS Harley 838) and titled for the first time An Epistle of Noble Poetrye.
1 day ago · A Manx speaker, recorded in the Isle of Man. Manx ( endonym: Gaelg or Gailck, pronounced [ɡilɡ, geːlɡ] or [gilk] ), [4] also known as Manx Gaelic, is a Gaelic language of the insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family, itself a branch of the Indo-European language family. Manx is the historical language of the Manx people .
2 days ago · ÉIGSE: A Journal of Irish Studies. The journal has been published by the University since 1939 with the aid of the Adam Boyd Simpson Bequest and is now funded by the NUI Publications Fund. Éigse is devoted to the cultivation of a wide range of research in the field of Irish language and literature. Many hitherto unpublished texts in prose and ...
5 days ago · There are three major dialects including Munster-Leinster, which is spoken in Southern Ireland, Connacht in the West, and Donegal in Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK. These dialects have considerable variation among them. Interestingly, Irish became an official language of the European Union in 2005.
3 days ago · English language, a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family that is closely related to the Frisian, German, and Dutch languages. It originated in England and is the dominant language of the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand. It has become the world’s lingua franca.
3 days ago · In the 1970s, a new standard orthography was devised — the etrerannyezhel or interdialectale. This system is based on the derivation of the words. Today the majority of writers continue to use the Peurunvan orthography, and it is the version taught in most Breton-language schools. Alphabet. Breton is written in the Latin script.
