Northern Manx dialect
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.
| Northern Manx | |
|---|---|
| Gaelg Hwoaie | |
| Native to | Isle of Man |
| Ethnicity | Manx |
| Extinct | 1940s[1] |
Early forms | |
| Official status | |
Official language in | Isle of Man |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
 Approximate borders of the Manx dialects | |
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]
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 (1 January 2019). "Recording the Last Native Manx Speakers 1909–1972". 10 (1): 1–46.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - Rhys, Sir John (1894). The Outlines of the Phonology of Manx Gaelic. Manx Society.
- Lewin, Christopher (15 January 2023). "Preocclusion in Manx". Journal of Celtic Linguistics. 24 (1): 125–166. doi:10.16922/jcl.24.5. S2CID 256967935.
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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