15.1404, Books: Language Description (Manx): Phillips

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Date:  Mon, 3 May 2004 11:02:44 -0400 (EDT)
From:  lincom.europa at t-online.de
Subject:  Manx Grammar: Phillips

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Date:  Mon, 3 May 2004 11:02:44 -0400 (EDT)
From:  lincom.europa at t-online.de
Subject:  Manx Grammar: Phillips




Title: Manx Grammar
Series Title: Languages of the World

Publication Year: 2004
Publisher:	Lincom GmbH
		http://www.lincom-europa.com
		http://lincom.at

Author: John D. Phillips, Yamaguchi University

Paperback: ISBN: 3895867659, Pages: 140, Price: Europe EURO 44.00

			
Abstract:

Manx is the recently-extinct language of the Isle of Man, located in
the northern part of the Irish Sea between Britain and Ireland. It is
a member of the Celtic group of the Indo-European family of languages,
and as such is related to the other modern Celtic languages: Welsh,
Breton, Scottish Gaelic, and Irish. It is closest to Scottish Gaelic
and Irish, but is not mutually intelligible with either.

Until the nineteenth century, the great majority of the island's
inhabitants were monolingual Manx-speaking, but after the island came
under British rule in 1765, Manx receded from public and later private
life and was replaced by English. The last native speaker died in
1974.

Manx is an isolating language with very little morphology. The basic
word order is VSO, though the clause-initial auxiliary marks only
tense, with the main verbal meaning carried by an indeclinable verbal
noun. Like the other Celtic languages, Manx has a system of initial
consonant mutation: words beginning with mutable consonants have two
forms, plain and lenited.

This grammar is based on a corpus of tape recordings of the speech of
ten of the last native speakers of Manx, with other sources used to
confirm and supplement as necessary.


Lingfield(s):	Language Description
		
Subject Language(s):	Manx (Language code: MJD)
		
Written In:	English (Language Code: ENG)


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