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6 days ago · Manx is one of the three daughter languages of Old Irish (via Middle Irish), the other two being Irish and Scottish Gaelic. It shares a number of developments in phonology, vocabulary and grammar with its sisters (in some cases only with certain dialects) and shows a number of unique changes.
An Caighdeán Oifigiúil aka Book Irish is equivalent to Bokmol in Norwegian and theres Spoken Irish. Theres 3 Provincal Dialects and 20 sub dialects. If you are descendant from Irish people, I recommend figuring out where they were from and learning that dialect. In the words of Patchy, pick a dialect amd stick with it until fluent.
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5 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 ...
4 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.
- The English language is an Indo-European language in the West Germanic language group. Modern English is widely considered to be the lingua franca...
- 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...
- 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...
- Having emerged from the dialects and vocabulary of Germanic peoples—Angles, Saxons, and Jutes—who settled in Britain in the 5th century CE, English...
- 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 · Liberal democracy has told many stories about itself within the nation building project of Britain and one has been the idea of assimilation as positive acculturation rather than a negative ethnic suicide. One story that is lacking is how the Irish helped to define who was and was not Irish, English, Scottish, Welsh, Cornish, Manx and British.
4 days ago · This aspiration was most strongly expressed during the two great catastrophes of modern Irish history, the 1798 Rising and the Great Famine, but was gradually abandoned thereafter. De Nie thus claims, for example, that British press opinion about the Famine was profoundly influenced by ideas about Irish incapacity.
5 days ago · Ireland and the Jacobite Cause, 1685-1766: A Fatal Attachment. Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2002, ISBN: 1851825347; 468pp.; Price: £32.50. As the volume of books and articles on eighteenth-century Ireland continues to expand, so Irish Jacobitism increasingly stands out as a glaring omission. In 1998 Professor Breandán Ó Buachalla produced a ...
