Social:Northern Manx dialect
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Short description: Northern dialect of the Manx language
| Northern Manx | |
|---|---|
| Gaelg Hwoaie | |
| Native to | Isle of Man |
| Ethnicity | Manx |
| Extinct | 1940s[1] |
Indo-European
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Early forms | Primitive Irish
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| Official status | |
Official language in | Isle of Man |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
 Approximate borders of the Manx dialects | |
Northern Manx (Manx: Gaelg Hwoaie) was a dialect of the Manx language, one of the three Goidelic languages.[2] It was spoken from Maughold to all the way to Peel.
Phonology
There were many noticeable differences that Northern Manx and Southern Manx had in pronunciations,[3] for example Northern Manx mostly preserved word-initial [ɡ] before [lʲ], but not Southern Manx. Some Northern Manx pronunciations often had long is, for example mee and nee.[4] Northern Manx's pronunciations were more similar to that of Scottish Gaelic.[5]
See also
- Goidelic languages
- Irish language
- Southern Manx Dialect
References
- ↑ The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (David Crystal, editor); Cambridge University Press, 1987; p. 303: "The Isle of Man was wholly Manx-speaking until the 18th century... the last mother-tongue speakers died in the late 1940s"
- ↑ Broderick 1984–86, 1:xxvii–xxviii, 160
- ↑ Broderick, George (2019-01-01) (in en-GB). Recording the Last Native Manx Speakers 1909–1972. 10. pp. 1–46. https://www.ulster.ac.uk/celtoslavica/series/10/01.
- ↑ Rhys, Sir John (1894) (in en). The Outlines of the Phonology of Manx Gaelic. Manx Society. https://books.google.com/books?id=nbUsAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Northern+Manx%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA44.
- ↑ Lewin, Christopher (2023-01-15). "Preocclusion in Manx". Journal of Celtic Linguistics 24 (1): 125–166. doi:10.16922/jcl.24.5. https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/uwp/jcl/2023/00000024/00000001/art00005.
Sources
- Broderick, George (1984–1986). A Handbook of Late Spoken Manx (3 volumes). Tübingen, Germany: Niemeyer. ISBN 3-484-42903-8.
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