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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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Irish Folklore Commission recordings. Irish Taoiseach Éamon...
- Gaelic Language
The Goidelic (/ ɡ ɔɪ ˈ d ɛ l ɪ k / goy-DEL-ik) or Gaelic...
- Ned Maddrell
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.
- 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...
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2 days ago · English orthography is the writing system used to represent spoken English, [1] [2] allowing readers to connect the graphemes to sound and to meaning. [3] It includes English's norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalisation, word breaks, emphasis, and punctuation . Like the orthography of most world languages, English orthography has a broad ...
1 day ago · English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.
- Manually coded English, (multiple systems)
2 days ago · Price: £25.00. Having extensively written on radical republicanism in 20th-century Ireland, Richard English approaches the subject of Irish nationalism with expertise. His latest book, Irish Freedom: the History of Nationalism in Ireland, follows closely on both his acclaimed study of the IRA, Armed Struggle (2003), and a sophisticated ...
4 days ago · Two major crises have erupted, including (1) the debate on the status of the Ijekavian dialect and (2) the controversy surrounding orthographic principles. These linguistic debates have striking political implications. Three main factions are identified. These include: Advocates of the "status quo": Modern Serbian as an outgrowth of Serbo-Croatian
2 days ago · The two great heroes of Irish warrior myths are Finn MacUail, leader of a band of warriors known as the Fianna and hero of the Fenian cycle of legends, and Cu Chulain, a warrior of supernatural strength and abilities, the hero of the Ulster cycle of myths. Although the tales surrounding these two figures are warrior stories and may even be ...
