The Manx language, casually spoken | Owen speaking Manx | Wikitongues

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Manx is spoken by as many as 1,800 people, primarily on the Isle of Man. A Celtic language, Manx was once driven into decline by English-only policies and fell dormant in 1974, but is growing again today.

More from Wikipedia: "Manx (Manx: Gaelg or Gailck, pronounced [ɡilɡ] or [ɡilk] or [ɡeːlɡ]), also known as Manx Gaelic, and also historically spelled Manks, is a Goidelic language of the Celtic language family, itself a branch of the Indo-European language family. The language of the Manx people was spoken as a first language on the Isle of Man until the death of the last native speaker, Ned Maddrell, in 1974. Despite this, the language has never fallen completely out of use, with a minority having some knowledge of it as a heritage language, and it is still an important part of the island's culture and cultural heritage. Manx has been the subject of language revival efforts; in 2015, around 1,800 people had varying levels of second language conversational ability. Since the late 20th century, Manx has become more visible on the island, with increased signage, radio broadcasts, and a Manx-medium primary school. The revival of Manx has been made easier because the language was well recorded: for example, the Bible had been translated into Manx, and audio recordings had been made of native speakers."

The video was self-recorded by Owen Williams in Liverpool, United Kingdom, and is published under a CC0 mark. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.
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This is perhaps the best video I've seen/heard of Manx spoken at a normal casual speaking pace! In many other videos, the speakers are not as 'fluent', or perhaps I should say "fluid". Nice to hear the language spoken so normally.

kavikv.d.hexenholtz
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Gura mie mooar eu! Thank you very much to Wikitongues! I'm not really a native speaker, but like lots of young people on the Isle of Man I learnt Manx partly through natural conversation in the community and partly through primary and secondary school - I speak Manx all the time and it's perfectly natural to me, and this is the case for an increasing number of young people.

As well as a growing number of naturally fluent speakers like me, there has been a growing number of native speakers since the 70s when the last pre-revitalisation native speaker passed away. A common misconception is that Manx has been revived from extinction, but there have always been fluent speakers in an unbroken chain of transmission, even though for a decade or so there were no native speakers.
Manx continues to grow from strength to strength with new learners young and old, and lots of children educated entirely through the language at the Bunscoill Gaelgagh - I actually did work experience there when I was younger and it's reassuring beyond measure to see the health of the language. Don't listen to the naysayers! Things are going very well for Manx, and the future looks very bright indeed.

owenwilliams
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Manx and Cornish have been revived and saved from near extinction! Celtic languages are now being actively being taught as a second language in Britain. Until recently it was easier to learn French and Spanish in Britain than a Celtic language. Perhaps it was a hangover from the time when Celtic languages were the languages of outer regions, English was the language of the towns and the Romance languages were the languages of churches and universities.

michaelhalsall
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It's like if Hebrew and Arabic had a Norwegian baby

aselle
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My fourth great-grandfather came from the Isle of Man to the US in the late 1700s. I hope you'll post more of these videos! Just hearing it spoken casually is wonderful. Thank you!

littlestitchergirl
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As a Gaelgeoir, I can hear a lot of similar words, to the point that I can work out the meaning of some sentences! Amazing language!

michaelmartindale
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bro im manx as the hills and i just found this and av never been more proud, sick lad, thanks for keeping this alive

elafiis
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En tant que locuteur d’mes langues d’héritage, cecitte c’est comme d’la musique à mes oreilles! 😌👂🎶
As a heritage language speaker myself, this is like music to my ears! 💗

Louisianish
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I know Manx is descended from Middle Irish, but it sounds remarkably similar to Modern Irish Gaelic. It's beautiful, as are all Celtic tongues.

chestersakamoto
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It's like a language that would be used to cast a spell, so enchanting, I love it.

mmmppp
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mad lad, I had never heard Manx before! Thank you for the time

vylinful
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Love to hear the language of some of my family spoken again :)

foxmccloud
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Such a beautiful language. Love how it was revived as well!

alik
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Useless fact: the fictional island of Sodor from Thomas the tank engine speaks Sudric, which is set to be an offset of Manx

ticomibe
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I speak Irish and I can understand some of this

Ludraman_
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I saw Owen's old video of him speaking manx a while ago. He seems a lot more confident with the language now!

poetanderson
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I only found out about how close the Manx language is to Irish lately and it's so interesting being able to understand maybe 50-60% of it!

davidh
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Sounds 100% better than all Irish speakers on wikitongues

Motofanable
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I've just paused at 1.15 in. I don't speak Manx but I do speak ulster Gaeilge and I think you've said

"Shay is your name you are twenty years of age. You study in Liverpool at university. You are happy to be making this video and hope to make more...."

calvingallen
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I had Irish Gaeilge when I was younger, and it's wonderful to hear a similar language (I actually understood much of what was said!).

ulsterbenny