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4 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 · 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 .
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2 days ago · Chapter 4 (‘Chaucer’s Northern Consciousness in the Reeve’s Tale’, pp. 88–112) re-evaluates Chaucer’s famous representation of northern English dialects in the Reeve’s Tale: in dialogue with recent studies of regional identity in other fourteenth-century works, Taylor argues that the Reeve’s Tale presents a ‘more complex ...
5 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.
5 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.
- What is the English language?The English language is an Indo-European language in the West Germanic language group. Modern English is widely considered to be the lingua franca...
- How many people speak English?As of 2020 there are 1.27 billion English speakers around the world. This makes it the most spoken language, ahead of Mandarin Chinese (1.12 billio...
- Is African American Vernacular English a dialect of English?There has been much public and academic debate on whether African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is a dialect of English or its own separate la...
- Where did English come from?Having emerged from the dialects and vocabulary of Germanic peoples—Angles, Saxons, and Jutes—who settled in Britain in the 5th century CE, English...
- Is English the official language of the United States of America?English is not the official language of the United States of America. The country does not have an official language on the federal level. Many sta...
3 days ago · Dating from about the middle of the eighth century, these glosses comprise one of the earliest large bodies of text written in Irish. The purpose of this site is to make to make the Würzburg Irish glosses available in digital format. The digital text is based on the edition of the glosses available in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus, Vol. 1 (Stokes ...
3 days ago · It is a peculiarly American phenomenon. Such a popular mythology of what is means to be Irish can unfortunately marginalize elements of the Irish population and of Irish history and genealogy. Even if people get past the green beer and corned beef and cabbage, they often seem to assume a set definition of who the Irish are which can be a narrow ...
