Manx Language

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Manx, also known as Manx Gaelic, is a Goidelic language spoken on the Isle of Man. The last native speaker, Ned Maddrell, died in 1974. In recent years, the language has been the subject of revival efforts. It is now the medium of education at the Bunscoill Ghaelgagh, a primary school for 4- to 11-year-olds in St John's.Manx is a Goidelic language, closely related to Irish and Scottish Gaelic. On the whole it is not mutually intelligible with these, though the speakers of the three languages find it easy to gain passive competency in each other's languages and even spoken competency. Foreign loan words are primarily Norse, English or French.