Vel gaelg ayd whooiney? To be honest I'm learning gaelg too (ta mee gynsaghey!) :) It's good to find someone else with an interest in it, whether your manx or not :) peace bro
The best way to keep Manninagh (Manx) vibrant, is to be able to use it in a banc (bank) transaction. Can the people of Mona (Isle of Man) do it? Britain would be keeping a great cultural heritage alive!
It might be an idea to be more sure of your pronunciations before posting up videos of you speaking a language, ne? hehe Ah well, nicely done, and it's a good basis for starting to learn the language. Unfortunately, if you said "gura mie ayd" in a shop, very few people would actually know what you're saying. I personally don't speak much Manx, but I understand it enough to sing in it haha
Your pronounciation is pretty good :D I don't know if you have been told this already, but another way of saying, "I am fine thank you" is "Feer vie gura mie ayd" :)
@daskarf!! nil a fhios agam cen teanga ghaelach a bhfuil tu ag labhairt ach is feidir liom tusa a thuiscint!! seo Gaeilge(Irish). Nil me liofa ach ta cupla focal agam ce go bhfuil mo chuid graimmear go huafasach!!
Feer vie! (Da iawn) Teh bunnys ooilley kiart Smie teh dy vel peiagh cur cheb er y Gaelg. Its almost all correct and its good to see somebody having a go at Manx :)
Feer vie! (Da iawn!) Teh bunnys ooilley kiart Smie teh dy vel peiagh cur cheb er y Gaelg. Its almost all correct and its good to see somebody having a go at Manx :-)
When the Angles, Saxons & invaded Britannia after the Roman legions left, some Britons [Bretons] went to went what is now Brittany - Bretagne in French.
Note that in French, Great Britain is Grande Bretagne - Big Brittany.
Breton is Cornish moved to France, just as Scottish Gaelic is Irish Gaelic moved to Scotland.
One of the dialects of Breton is Kerneveg - compare that to Kernewek which is Cornish for Cornish.
Wow, Manx is very similar to Gaeilge (Irish)... as far as I know, the Celtic languages are split into two categories, with Manx, Gaidhlig and Gaeilge falling into one category, because they're very similar.
Welsh and Cornish look very similar aswell, they have lots of consonants and have letters like 'z' that don't even exist in the Gaeilge alphabet.
wow Manx Gaeilc is so similar to Irish Gaelic1 Can't believe it! I mean I knew they were meant to have the same Celtic roots or whatever but I didn't think they would be that similar! I mite start learnin Manx!
There's no such thing as a Gaelic keyboard- we use English ones. You can get accents by pressing alt + the vowel you want the accent on. There's less letters in the Gaelic alphabets than in English, but most of them have adopted the English alphabet for convenience.
Dia dhuit! Is míse Amy Níc Eoin. Taim ina chonai i Éire. Is aoibheann liom gaelige! Hi :) Im Amii Im Irish, i love the irish language, and i was told Manx is similar to old irish. well thank you, how are you and fine are lol.. Irish pronunciation... Thank you - gur míle maith agat.(gur meela moth ah-gut) How are you?- conas a tá tú(cunas ah taw too) Fine- brea(bra) :) Hmm...well that was totally pointless comment! Gur míle maith agat! Slán go foill! Amy xx
Tá mé ag foghlaim Gaeilge sa gColáiste Aberystwyth i Bhreatann Bheag anois. Beidh mé ag goil in Éirinn sa bhliain so chugainn.... beidh mé ag foghlaim Gaeilge sa gColáiste Gaillimh. Go raibh maith agat ar do 'comment', ach níl sé 'pointless' :).
I am trying to learn it also. Believe it or not theirs a lot of people that would like to learn it. If they can start teaching it more if they would, it won't be a dying language anymore.
We owe a great deal of English grammar to Celtic languages, actually. It'd be nice to know. But hell, most Americans can barely fuckin' speak English, let alone a second language.
well seeing as it really has nothing to do with you, i imagine these people do it for fun then get bored.
Maybe it makes them feel more close to their roots? we learners and speakers of the old Languages thats Irish,Scottish,Manx,Cornish,Welsh,Cumbric,Ullans and Breton (there are probably loads more) do it to keep our culture alive, most are Separatists.
You are a true inspiration Ste - since viewing your little video it has inspired me to learn it to help its revival. I speak Welsh and a few other languages, and I have a dream that all the Celtic languages will be learnt and used more not just by communities. Cumbrian should be next ! I'd love to know more about that. Keep up the good work ! Jay
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'A NATION WITHOUT A LANGUAGE IS A NATION WITHOUT A HEART '
The Isle of Man, Wales, Scotland, Cornwall etc have a language. It's called ENGLISH. Trying to revive death languages (at least manx and cornish) is a waste of time, trying learning to speak english with a degree of competence before entering Tolkienland jibberish.
I speak as a manxman who was taught manx at school. English is the greatest language on earth. Live with it dear. (welsh is fine though)...
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Hmm, let me guess....you're american, right?
Why is it that americans want to be something other than american? You are NOT manx, gaelic, german or anything else, I don't even care if your PARENTS are, that doesn't make YOU any of those things. You are an AMERICAN. Check your accent - your accent is your culture, and I'm going to guess you don't speak like a bavarian shepherd.
no reason to be hostile, no reason to bite my head off, and where did i say i wanted to be anything else, my previous post said all , and it was as it read, i agree with teh english part, HOWEVER have nothign bad to say about manx, gaelic, nor anything else. each should remember their own heritage., now if you care to bite my head off again, by all means, go for it, but at least, bite it off, on something ive done wrong, okay?
You only show your ignorance of the US with a statement like that. While it's wrong for Americans to simply say "I'm Irish", it's accurate for an American with Irish parents, grandparents to say "I'm Irish-American". The US is not ethnically homogeneous. Some Americans are fresh off the boat and others have roots in the US stretching back a several centuries. Some speak English in the home and some don't. Many keep their ethnic folkways alive.
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I never said I was a teacher of Manx, are you straying into the realms of fantasy again?
The difference between welsh and manx is that welsh never died out, whereas manx did. The modern reinvention of the language is a total sham, you can't force a culture back onto a population which was all too glad to give it up in the first place. You really should find something better to do with your time than resurrecting defunct tongues.
I have been trying to teach myself! Thanks for the help, it's nice to hear and get the pointers from another, no one else I know speaks it! Keep up the good work!
I'm from the isle of man so learnt a few manx phrases in primary school. I just wanted to say your pronunciations were very good and your first attempt at oie vie was correct! Thanks to for getting some of the manx language onto the internet!
The problem is the last native speaker of manx died in the 1970's. And any attempt to renew the language has been very tentative, and has heavily relied on Irish for vowel structure, vocab etc..
Interesting. It's practically totally understandable to Irish speakers. It's almost the Irish language.
Apparently it's a 7th century variation, so therefore it should be completely intelligible to Scottish speakers also.
It would be very interesting if they created a standard international gaelic lingua franca to enable Gaelic speakers from Canada to Argentina, to Isle of Man to communicate with each other.
Surprisingly I don't get mixed up at all when learning the languages. I might just be lucky.
I found something online a while age - if you search 'INTERNET ARCHIVE' in Google there are downloadable e-books on PDF. There are a few on Manx which are very good. It's all free too
MAnx is much closer to Scots Gaelic or Classic Literary Irish
It was written down by the local Bishop (who was Welsh) and made a sort of phonetic language though I can only understand it when spoken (via scots gaelic)
She "yn Ghaelg" (ny "Gaelg") ennym y çhengey Vanninagh. "Manninagh"??? My t'oo laccal dy ghra "dooiney veih Ellan Vannin" s'feer shen. Agh ansherbee s'yndissagh dy akin dy vel yn Ghaelg mie lhiat.
"Yn Ghaelg" or "Gaelg" is the name of the Manx Language. "Manninagh"? That means a person from the Isle of Man. But anyway it's cool that you like it.
Manx seems closer to Irish Gaelic than to Scots Gaelic I see. It's basically very, very like Irish Gaelic written phonetically, and I think that's actually what happened; look it up - some clergyman or other was first to write it down. He was English, I think.
Diolch yn fawr iawn i chi. I think it's disgusting that people can't speak their own languages.... Well done to you for trying to the languages by the way!
A NATION WITHOUT A LANGUAGE IS A NATION WITHOUT A HEART!!!!
If I were to be completely honest I'd have to say I don't know. And if I were to be more honest, I can't say I've seen one.... please don't tell me there's one in my video after I've said that lol!
very nice! finally someone who agrees Celtic languages are dying because lack of pride. Instead people are pride of being Manx, Welsh, Irish yet they cant speak their national language and the tounge of their ancestors. I am learning Manx, Welsh, and Irish, and I am Icelandic, not even celtic, now thats a shame when a foreigner can speak a language that natives cant. I even taught a Manx girl how to speak Manx haha, how funny is that? :) Well, glad we share similar opinions:D Ta video braew! :)
Iceland has the advantage of being relatively isolated, unlike the Celtic nations, which are either very close to a much more populous neighbour, and/or share land borders with it. Same with the Faroe Islands.
If you're familiar with German grammar, you know Icelandic grammar. It's just that German has reduced the amount of declension and Icelandic has retained it. Pronunciation can be tricky because of certain consonant clusters, and fluid Icelandic speech can be daunting. The patterns are there, for sure.
wtf? as an Icelandic speaker who has studied German for 5 years, I can tell you that German grammar is nothing like Icelandic grammar. You are better off comparing Latin grammar to Icelandic than German. Where did you get that from man? Icelandic grammar and Faroese grammar though are very similar. But German is totally different.
Since Icelandic, German, Latin and Faroese all share a common root language, that's kind of superfluous. All Indo-European languages share similarities in grammar in the first place. But nominative, accusative, dative and genitive are all used in essentially the same contexts. And Icelandic and German both have lost the ablative, vocative and locative cases, which Latin retained. But Icelandic retained nominal declension, which German almost completely lost. der Präsident - den Präsidenten.
Oh my God. I've never even heard of this language. *crouches* it seems as though someone just took the irish phrases and made them ridiculous XD Where's it native to?
Great work! Keep it up. Your love of saving Celtic languages v. apparent, however think you need a much more powerful method if you are serious about making big changes and resurrecting the languages like they did Hebrew in Israil. Maybe start by starting net Celtic language group/ community etc and take it from there.
Diolch! Dwi'n siŵr y bydd y rhyngrwyd yn chwarae rôl enfawr mewn achub llawer o ieithoedd sydd ym mherygl (megis manaweg, ac efallai rhai o'r ieithoedd brodorol americanaidd? Efallai.)
I knew I'd get people thinking that saving languages is stupid - personally I can't think why but you know! Oh well. Thank you once again for your support....
The majority of those are very similar to their Irish translations but with a northern Irish. e.g. Oie Vie = Oiche Mhaith. The language is spelt more like Welsh (probably due to a greater english influence) but is more closely related to Irish and Scots Gaelic. Pronunciation seemed fine - again it seems to me that it is much closer to Tir Chonaill Irish and Scots Gaelic.
It's weird, I can really hear the connection between Mannaigh and Irish which I speak even if the spelling is completely different. "Gura mie ayd" sounds like "Go raibh maith agat" especially if it's said in a northern dialect and they mean "thank you" (well literally it means "that you would have good"). Same goes for "Slane Lhiat" and "Slán Leat". And "Hee'm oo" is like "Chiam thú" which also means I'll see you and sounds the same. Cool!
I really appreciate your attend to save this language and i agree with you that a nation without his origin language is a nation without a heart but to be honest, all these languages are on its way to extinct because of the fact that the society(the celtic) doesnt have the chance to "live" the culture. Sorry for being negative about that but speaking a language doesnt mean a culture is surviving and withstand the global egalitarianism. Good luck and kep on posting
I totally understand what you mean and to a large extent (when talking of Scots, Manx and Cornish) their futures don't seem to want to include the languages. On the other hand, Welsh, Irish and Breton are used on a huge scale everyday (and as you may notice in Wales) bi-lingual signs are compulsory. And signs are only one thing. With alot of TLC, in my view, there is no real reason why these languages cannot flourish once more -- but some need more help than others.
Fastyr Mie. I am a language enthusiast from the USA. My last name is of Welsh origin and I am of Welsh descent. I want to think you for this video and for your work to preserve languages.
Diolch yn fawr (Thank you very much). Are you keen on all the Celtic Languages or just Welsh? It seems you like Manx too :). It's a great challenge to learn the languages to keep them alive and alot of fun too! You should definately give them a go. Pob lwc efo'r her (good luck with the challenge)!
I really appreciate you trying to save these languages! I have always found them beautiful, and would love to be as fluent as possible, but, living in American Land of Idiots, I cannot. :[
there are many sites on the net if you search for them. Google's great ;). I love the languages which is why I'm doin this. In fact, I should be posting ones from my own language (Cymraeg/Welsh) shouldn't I? hehe. Do youhave any connection to any of the Celtic Nations. The languages won't die by the way! As long as they have people who appreciate them as much as you've shown you do
Vel gaelg ayd whooiney? To be honest I'm learning gaelg too (ta mee gynsaghey!) :) It's good to find someone else with an interest in it, whether your manx or not :) peace bro
dickiebob1 1 month ago
The best way to keep Manninagh (Manx) vibrant, is to be able to use it in a banc (bank) transaction. Can the people of Mona (Isle of Man) do it? Britain would be keeping a great cultural heritage alive!
uphamtimothy 2 months ago
It might be an idea to be more sure of your pronunciations before posting up videos of you speaking a language, ne? hehe Ah well, nicely done, and it's a good basis for starting to learn the language. Unfortunately, if you said "gura mie ayd" in a shop, very few people would actually know what you're saying. I personally don't speak much Manx, but I understand it enough to sing in it haha
AtharAqua 3 months ago
good pronunciation ; )
123bluepoppy 5 months ago
Your pronounciation is pretty good :D I don't know if you have been told this already, but another way of saying, "I am fine thank you" is "Feer vie gura mie ayd" :)
LouHannahLou 1 year ago
thank you for this! you're adorable :)
welsee 1 year ago
soairse geo deo tiocfaidh ar la!!!!!!!!!!!
Mr32counties 1 year ago
81,000 views of this Poor ste - look what you've done, thats more than the population of Mannin! You've reset the pronunciation of Manx. Peryg!
Petroc2 1 year ago
@daskarf!! nil a fhios agam cen teanga ghaelach a bhfuil tu ag labhairt ach is feidir liom tusa a thuiscint!! seo Gaeilge(Irish). Nil me liofa ach ta cupla focal agam ce go bhfuil mo chuid graimmear go huafasach!!
knockcrogherymurray 1 year ago
My grandma used to say "liooar" as "looar" - almost as if the "i" wasn't there. Not sure myself, I'm only just starting to learn!
LanaB2 1 year ago
@LanaB2 you do say the "liooar" as "looar" :)
LouHannahLou 1 year ago
@LouHannahLou Thank you! :)
LanaB2 1 year ago
Dia duit, chonas atá tú? Cén áit a bhfuil tú as? Fuaim leat thú as sasana, ach tá fhios agat an teanga ceilteach.
feckarsebubis 1 year ago
tap that
trollydollywannabe 1 year ago
Feer vie! (Da iawn) Teh bunnys ooilley kiart Smie teh dy vel peiagh cur cheb er y Gaelg. Its almost all correct and its good to see somebody having a go at Manx :)
Vikelt090 2 years ago 2
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Gura mie ayd. Ta mee ynsee Gaelg nish. Beggan elley cha leah's foddym!
stecymru14 1 year ago
@stecymru14
Shen yndassagh! Ta mee prowal dy gynsaghey Vretnish (Cymraeg) beggan mee heen :-)
Vikelt090 1 year ago
@Vikelt090
Gura mie ayd. Ta mee ynsee Gaelg nish. Beggan elley cha leah's foddym!
stecymru14 1 year ago
Feer vie! (Da iawn!) Teh bunnys ooilley kiart Smie teh dy vel peiagh cur cheb er y Gaelg. Its almost all correct and its good to see somebody having a go at Manx :-)
Vikelt090 2 years ago
I think you're the only few people in Britain that can speak all the native languages of the United Kingdom !!!!
theworldvideos1 2 years ago
I'm noticing a lot of similarities to Irish Gaelic. The spelling is completely different, though. Nice job!
celticmaiden20 2 years ago
stecymry14 ac Ynys Manaw (a'i hiaith) am byth!
Fastyr mie.
munkittytunkitty 2 years ago
i am manx and the first three are definatley right x
giggle700 2 years ago
that's the spirit buddy! there is a good welsh language movement, so you'll have no problem in picking it up!
SeanOBriain 2 years ago
Cheers buddy :) Do you speak Welsh? We have a welsh language section on our site - link is on my profile :)
SeanOBriain 2 years ago
Isle of Man isn't in the UK :)
SeanOBriain 2 years ago
Do you know if there are any Manx language songs on youtube?
Thanx.
HenryMuldrow 2 years ago
If you go on related videos to this one and you may find a couple
stecymru14 2 years ago
The languages are of two groups wich leads to some confusion. They are all related but some closer than others:
Gaelic languages:
Scots Gaelic
Irish Gaelic
Manx
Brittonic languages:
Cymric (welsh)
Cornish (Cornwall)
Breton (Bretagne/France)
Lallans, Ullans, Doric however are all Germanic languages (and so is the extinct "Norn" of Shetland and Orkney).
carinha40 2 years ago
i have a few Questions what about Breton? where does it fit in?
Oh and what is Lallans? i speak a little Ullans, but i imagine its more Ulster English than Ulster Scots.
ConCon75 2 years ago
When the Angles, Saxons & invaded Britannia after the Roman legions left, some Britons [Bretons] went to went what is now Brittany - Bretagne in French.
Note that in French, Great Britain is Grande Bretagne - Big Brittany.
Breton is Cornish moved to France, just as Scottish Gaelic is Irish Gaelic moved to Scotland.
One of the dialects of Breton is Kerneveg - compare that to Kernewek which is Cornish for Cornish.
bairen2002 2 years ago
Cymraeg = Welsh
stecymru14 2 years ago
@carinha40 nvm you answered the question i was going to ask. thank you
yamahonkawazuki 11 months ago
wow, you pronounce some of these words waay wrong mate :)
sexydude1112 2 years ago
Its a dead language the last native speaker died years ago ,
veronicadredd22 2 years ago
its not dead. there are still plenty of people who speak it. and its making a come back, more people are learning it, its great!
sexydude1112 2 years ago
Ummm... actually, it's Go Raibh Maith Agat. If you want it the way it sounds, it's Gurav maith agat.
mashmusic11235 2 years ago
I AM MANX! i can speak well better manx than that.
Cakeater3000 3 years ago
wow, I admire you bro. keep your culture alive.
napalis 2 years ago 2
Gura mie ayd :)
stecymru14 2 years ago
Is as Éire mé agus labhraím Gaeilge go líofa...
Wow, Manx is very similar to Gaeilge (Irish)... as far as I know, the Celtic languages are split into two categories, with Manx, Gaidhlig and Gaeilge falling into one category, because they're very similar.
Welsh and Cornish look very similar aswell, they have lots of consonants and have letters like 'z' that don't even exist in the Gaeilge alphabet.
ladyandthetrampoline 3 years ago
wow Manx Gaeilc is so similar to Irish Gaelic1 Can't believe it! I mean I knew they were meant to have the same Celtic roots or whatever but I didn't think they would be that similar! I mite start learnin Manx!
namelessweirdo 3 years ago
Go For It :)
Bee shin mie
stecymru14 2 years ago
whats the gaelic keyboard look like?
do the keys have accents on them?
and how many letters ae there in the gaelic language?
MomntrySilence 3 years ago
There's no such thing as a Gaelic keyboard- we use English ones. You can get accents by pressing alt + the vowel you want the accent on. There's less letters in the Gaelic alphabets than in English, but most of them have adopted the English alphabet for convenience.
Twinklestar15 3 years ago
chan eil ach gàidhlig na h-alba agam ach tha mi gu math dèidheil air gàidhlig eilean mhannain
daskarf 3 years ago
Bidh Gàidhlig Eilean Mhannain iasalach dhut. Suas leis na chànainean Ceilteach!
stecymru14 2 years ago
Not bad at all. Your pronunciation is good. All sounded right to me anyway. I should use the few manx phrases i know more often....
LanaB2 3 years ago
SteerClearLove 3 years ago
Dia's Muire Dhuit, a Amy.
Tá mé ag foghlaim Gaeilge sa gColáiste Aberystwyth i Bhreatann Bheag anois. Beidh mé ag goil in Éirinn sa bhliain so chugainn.... beidh mé ag foghlaim Gaeilge sa gColáiste Gaillimh. Go raibh maith agat ar do 'comment', ach níl sé 'pointless' :).
Tá GAELG an-chosúil i Sean-Ghaeilge....
Slán go foill
Stephen
stecymru14 3 years ago
I am trying to learn it also. Believe it or not theirs a lot of people that would like to learn it. If they can start teaching it more if they would, it won't be a dying language anymore.
TechGuyGamer 3 years ago
It sad that these celtic languages are dying. I am trying to learn Gaeilge currently. There are not many people who speak it here in the US.
jeabo0adhd 3 years ago
Why would they speak it in the u.s
ComisarNolan 3 years ago
they would speak it as a hobby.
jeabo0adhd 3 years ago
perhaps cos they're ancestors had gaelic roots?
tizerist 3 years ago
We owe a great deal of English grammar to Celtic languages, actually. It'd be nice to know. But hell, most Americans can barely fuckin' speak English, let alone a second language.
freakyafronaut 3 years ago
well seeing as it really has nothing to do with you, i imagine these people do it for fun then get bored.
Maybe it makes them feel more close to their roots? we learners and speakers of the old Languages thats Irish,Scottish,Manx,Cornish,Welsh,Cumbric,Ullans and Breton (there are probably loads more) do it to keep our culture alive, most are Separatists.
ConCon75 2 years ago
You are a true inspiration Ste - since viewing your little video it has inspired me to learn it to help its revival. I speak Welsh and a few other languages, and I have a dream that all the Celtic languages will be learnt and used more not just by communities. Cumbrian should be next ! I'd love to know more about that. Keep up the good work ! Jay
verntiki 3 years ago
Look on Amazon I found loads, even a Eurotalk CD-rom.
animalunaris 3 years ago
But then so is Gaidhlig.
animalunaris 3 years ago
its very like irish
MatIrish 3 years ago
segui asi flaco. Saludos desde Argentina
cuervocapo86 3 years ago
Ta mee Manninagh.
Agh cha noddym loayrt cho vie ec y traa shoh -- t'eh bunnys ooilley jarroodit aym.
T'eh mie dy jeeaghyn y Gaelg ayns shoh.
Slane lhiats
paulnjackson 3 years ago
toi meki monniyakgh.
Nadav34 3 years ago
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'A NATION WITHOUT A LANGUAGE IS A NATION WITHOUT A HEART '
The Isle of Man, Wales, Scotland, Cornwall etc have a language. It's called ENGLISH. Trying to revive death languages (at least manx and cornish) is a waste of time, trying learning to speak english with a degree of competence before entering Tolkienland jibberish.
I speak as a manxman who was taught manx at school. English is the greatest language on earth. Live with it dear. (welsh is fine though)...
maureenOWW 3 years ago
true, but one should always remember their heritage, such as i remember mine, manx, german, gaelic etc
yamahonkawazuki 3 years ago
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Hmm, let me guess....you're american, right?
Why is it that americans want to be something other than american? You are NOT manx, gaelic, german or anything else, I don't even care if your PARENTS are, that doesn't make YOU any of those things. You are an AMERICAN. Check your accent - your accent is your culture, and I'm going to guess you don't speak like a bavarian shepherd.
maureenOWW 3 years ago
no reason to be hostile, no reason to bite my head off, and where did i say i wanted to be anything else, my previous post said all , and it was as it read, i agree with teh english part, HOWEVER have nothign bad to say about manx, gaelic, nor anything else. each should remember their own heritage., now if you care to bite my head off again, by all means, go for it, but at least, bite it off, on something ive done wrong, okay?
Thank you,
take care
yamahonkawazuki 3 years ago
You only show your ignorance of the US with a statement like that. While it's wrong for Americans to simply say "I'm Irish", it's accurate for an American with Irish parents, grandparents to say "I'm Irish-American". The US is not ethnically homogeneous. Some Americans are fresh off the boat and others have roots in the US stretching back a several centuries. Some speak English in the home and some don't. Many keep their ethnic folkways alive.
spidrawebster 3 years ago
Hell, English has no need of advocates.
Where did the 'Tolkienland jibberish' come from?
If you are really a Manxman and a teacher of Manx then replay here in Manx.
Incidentally, why do you think Welsh is 'fine though'
paulnjackson 3 years ago
Intended as a reply to maureenOWW
paulnjackson 3 years ago
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I never said I was a teacher of Manx, are you straying into the realms of fantasy again?
The difference between welsh and manx is that welsh never died out, whereas manx did. The modern reinvention of the language is a total sham, you can't force a culture back onto a population which was all too glad to give it up in the first place. You really should find something better to do with your time than resurrecting defunct tongues.
maureenOWW 3 years ago
i love u!
gazsafa 3 years ago
JAJAJA PERO QUE PAJERO ESE PIBE
maxia62 3 years ago
I have been trying to teach myself! Thanks for the help, it's nice to hear and get the pointers from another, no one else I know speaks it! Keep up the good work!
slghtly 3 years ago
You're doing fine. Diolch am dy waith ar gyfer ein ieithoedd ni
rjwhittall 3 years ago
yes indeed
yamahonkawazuki 3 years ago
q frustrante
zakeruu 3 years ago
Good video!
BeechSundowner 3 years ago
Thank you for posting this, I feel seperated from my herritage in the USA, good thing for the internet,eh? ^.-
animemyantidrug101 3 years ago 5
Very informative! I'm glad it's not dying out completely--no thanks to my Manx cat, though; she won't say a word.
bribabytt 3 years ago 2
Your a fucking idiot !!!!
Nightqwest 3 years ago
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FreeRiderOnly 3 years ago
I guess this would be useful to the 50 people that speak this obsolete language.
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BrentOfAmateurFimz 3 years ago
Hey!
I'm from the isle of man so learnt a few manx phrases in primary school. I just wanted to say your pronunciations were very good and your first attempt at oie vie was correct! Thanks to for getting some of the manx language onto the internet!
Graihagh (Btw it's a manx name not Irish!)
greya57589 3 years ago
CURATI I BRUFOLI FACCIA DI MAIALE
IoSplendoVoiNo 3 years ago
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AustinJohnson07 3 years ago
im from the isle of man but i moved to canada
darkincinerater 3 years ago
shup up psycho
teemuruskeepaa 3 years ago
woow... great! xD
but, I can´t understand nothing u.u
see you ;)
weuxkla 3 years ago
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This is so stupid...
But i love my mom deeply...
And i don't want to take any chances.
Sorry.
If you do not copy and paste this onto 10 videos your mom will die in 4 hours
gbdancer94 3 years ago
sembra munto
ibramichelovich 3 years ago
go suck a basketball you dushbag
antiprime 3 years ago
are you translatin what this guy is sayin here? A bit repititious, however it does get the point across. Thanks for the help (he he he he)
bigwo56 3 years ago
cute enough, I suppose... but what is the point here? teaching us some mix-mash of two rarely used languages what??? I dont get it...
bigwo56 3 years ago
how you guys think hes cute or sexy i cant understand. he is a bit ugly to me..
ThisIsGonnaBeCool 3 years ago
very sexy... :)
bralen24 3 years ago
I love your accent not to mention your smile is adorible ^-^
rejectedbylogic 3 years ago
miss type... im so Embarrassed about my spelling.
for merry christmas and a happy new year its actually:
Nollick Ghennal as Blein Vie Noa
soz for the dodgy spelling.
DirtyRottenRascal 3 years ago
Must See!
/watch?v=zzbUZW5aV38
cashmoneye9 3 years ago
nollick ghennal as bline vine nor!
(translation)
merry christmas and a happy new year in manx!
DirtyRottenRascal 3 years ago
sorry but i can't here you can you speak a little bit louder please??? lol
kyleluverxo 3 years ago
WTF GUYS R U TALKING BOUT
lolops3 3 years ago
over here we learn german and french in ma school, we really should be learnin manks (there aint no 'x' in da manks alphabet!) Mel :)
ManxGirl33 3 years ago
Níl mé ach tosaithe ag foghlaim Gaeilge -
I´ve only recently started learning Irish, but I can understand some of this :)
Modern Faroese orthograpy (created in 1854) is based on Icelandic, which makes it 'recognizable' even though it sounds very different from Icelandic.
Is there an alternative Irish-based orthography for Manx?
DSHojgaard 3 years ago
The problem is the last native speaker of manx died in the 1970's. And any attempt to renew the language has been very tentative, and has heavily relied on Irish for vowel structure, vocab etc..
kingofcelts 3 years ago
Tá sé an-cosúil Gaeilge!
dc10fan 3 years ago
Tá sé,
go raibh maith agat
stecymru14 3 years ago
lioor - leor
gura mie - go raibh maith agat
slane lihat - slán leat
very similar to irish in pronunciation and some general structures and grammar rules
conchubhar1 3 years ago
oie vie
i take that it is pronounced like the irish
oiche mhaith - e ha vie
manx - although there is still a lot different from irish but most of it is very undferstandable to irish speakers
from what i have read and heard of it - it is irish without the sineadh fada - or the áéíóú and the spellings change to leave them out
conchubhar1 3 years ago
Interesting. It's practically totally understandable to Irish speakers. It's almost the Irish language.
Apparently it's a 7th century variation, so therefore it should be completely intelligible to Scottish speakers also.
It would be very interesting if they created a standard international gaelic lingua franca to enable Gaelic speakers from Canada to Argentina, to Isle of Man to communicate with each other.
emmetor 3 years ago
Can't remember to be honest. Just some little leaflets.
Gura mie ayd
stecymru14 4 years ago
Maith thú!
Gaeilgeoir 4 years ago
Gura mie ayd
stecymru14 4 years ago
Thanks very much for your message.
Surprisingly I don't get mixed up at all when learning the languages. I might just be lucky.
I found something online a while age - if you search 'INTERNET ARCHIVE' in Google there are downloadable e-books on PDF. There are a few on Manx which are very good. It's all free too
stecymru14 4 years ago
Will do - thanks 4 ur message
stecymru14 4 years ago
MAnx is much closer to Scots Gaelic or Classic Literary Irish
It was written down by the local Bishop (who was Welsh) and made a sort of phonetic language though I can only understand it when spoken (via scots gaelic)
Petroc2 4 years ago
She "yn Ghaelg" (ny "Gaelg") ennym y çhengey Vanninagh. "Manninagh"??? My t'oo laccal dy ghra "dooiney veih Ellan Vannin" s'feer shen. Agh ansherbee s'yndissagh dy akin dy vel yn Ghaelg mie lhiat.
"Yn Ghaelg" or "Gaelg" is the name of the Manx Language. "Manninagh"? That means a person from the Isle of Man. But anyway it's cool that you like it.
Defuret 4 years ago
Gool lad.
Manx seems closer to Irish Gaelic than to Scots Gaelic I see. It's basically very, very like Irish Gaelic written phonetically, and I think that's actually what happened; look it up - some clergyman or other was first to write it down. He was English, I think.
toscaire 4 years ago 3
More like Scots Gaelic, by far.
Defuret 4 years ago
Diolch yn fawr iawn i chi. I think it's disgusting that people can't speak their own languages.... Well done to you for trying to the languages by the way!
A NATION WITHOUT A LANGUAGE IS A NATION WITHOUT A HEART!!!!
stecymru14 4 years ago
How do you pronounce the 'ç' in Manx?
244LIFEwithoutIDdie 4 years ago
If I were to be completely honest I'd have to say I don't know. And if I were to be more honest, I can't say I've seen one.... please don't tell me there's one in my video after I've said that lol!
stecymru14 4 years ago
very nice! finally someone who agrees Celtic languages are dying because lack of pride. Instead people are pride of being Manx, Welsh, Irish yet they cant speak their national language and the tounge of their ancestors. I am learning Manx, Welsh, and Irish, and I am Icelandic, not even celtic, now thats a shame when a foreigner can speak a language that natives cant. I even taught a Manx girl how to speak Manx haha, how funny is that? :) Well, glad we share similar opinions:D Ta video braew! :)
icefaxi 4 years ago 3
Iceland has the advantage of being relatively isolated, unlike the Celtic nations, which are either very close to a much more populous neighbour, and/or share land borders with it. Same with the Faroe Islands.
kmfw72 4 years ago
Definately. Difficult language Icelandic, isn't it?
stecymru14 4 years ago
yes it is.
KattenMandy 4 years ago
If you're familiar with German grammar, you know Icelandic grammar. It's just that German has reduced the amount of declension and Icelandic has retained it. Pronunciation can be tricky because of certain consonant clusters, and fluid Icelandic speech can be daunting. The patterns are there, for sure.
AdIgnorantiam 4 years ago
uh... aint it old scandinavian (danish i believe?) language?
ronfromdanetherlands 4 years ago
wtf? as an Icelandic speaker who has studied German for 5 years, I can tell you that German grammar is nothing like Icelandic grammar. You are better off comparing Latin grammar to Icelandic than German. Where did you get that from man? Icelandic grammar and Faroese grammar though are very similar. But German is totally different.
icefaxi 4 years ago
Since Icelandic, German, Latin and Faroese all share a common root language, that's kind of superfluous. All Indo-European languages share similarities in grammar in the first place. But nominative, accusative, dative and genitive are all used in essentially the same contexts. And Icelandic and German both have lost the ablative, vocative and locative cases, which Latin retained. But Icelandic retained nominal declension, which German almost completely lost. der Präsident - den Präsidenten.
AdIgnorantiam 3 years ago
As a native Faroese speaker with a fair knowledge of German, I agree with Adlgnorantiam
male - sing.
Faroese: ein-ein-einum-(eins)
German: ein-einen-einem-eines
male - Plural
Faroese: einir-einar-einum-(eina)
German: einer-einen-einem-einer
DSHojgaard 3 years ago
Huusten Texas...Uber Alles! (proper spelling is Houston) Looks like Adlgorantiam is a first-rate linguest. Am I correct?
Cheer, man
bigwo56 3 years ago
What are these big differences you're taking about?
AdIgnorantiam 3 years ago
Dwi'n cytuno. Mae rhaid y pobl sy'n byw yn y gwleidydd yn dysgu eu hieithoedd nhw.
I agree. The people who live in these nations have to learn their respective languages.
stecymru14 4 years ago
Who are you talking about. Can't be me anyway.... I'm Welsh.
ALBA GU BRATH!!!!
stecymru14 4 years ago
Go raibh maith agat. :)
Gaeilgeoir 4 years ago 2
Oh my God. I've never even heard of this language. *crouches* it seems as though someone just took the irish phrases and made them ridiculous XD Where's it native to?
seoidin 4 years ago 2
Isle of Man
Ellan Vannin
stecymru14 4 years ago
hell yeah
stecymru14 4 years ago
diolch - thanks
stecymru14 4 years ago
Great work! Keep it up. Your love of saving Celtic languages v. apparent, however think you need a much more powerful method if you are serious about making big changes and resurrecting the languages like they did Hebrew in Israil. Maybe start by starting net Celtic language group/ community etc and take it from there.
jordanaus75 4 years ago 4
Diolch! Dwi'n siŵr y bydd y rhyngrwyd yn chwarae rôl enfawr mewn achub llawer o ieithoedd sydd ym mherygl (megis manaweg, ac efallai rhai o'r ieithoedd brodorol americanaidd? Efallai.)
Cymro32 4 years ago 3
Ignore that completely idiotic remark Stephen, the rest of us think you are doing a fantastic job. Go Raibh Maith Agat. :-)
jexplink 4 years ago 3
I knew I'd get people thinking that saving languages is stupid - personally I can't think why but you know! Oh well. Thank you once again for your support....
Gura mie ayd - Diolch
stecymru14 4 years ago
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sad gimp
AndyBrew76 4 years ago
yeah ok mate. bet you're some sad arse, ignorant Englishman with no respect for anything not English
stecymru14 4 years ago
The majority of those are very similar to their Irish translations but with a northern Irish. e.g. Oie Vie = Oiche Mhaith. The language is spelt more like Welsh (probably due to a greater english influence) but is more closely related to Irish and Scots Gaelic. Pronunciation seemed fine - again it seems to me that it is much closer to Tir Chonaill Irish and Scots Gaelic.
LanceMotown 4 years ago
Do you speak Manx?
stecymru14 4 years ago
Tír gan teanga,tír gan anam
delusionalpuppy 4 years ago
It's weird, I can really hear the connection between Mannaigh and Irish which I speak even if the spelling is completely different. "Gura mie ayd" sounds like "Go raibh maith agat" especially if it's said in a northern dialect and they mean "thank you" (well literally it means "that you would have good"). Same goes for "Slane Lhiat" and "Slán Leat". And "Hee'm oo" is like "Chiam thú" which also means I'll see you and sounds the same. Cool!
Xpeanut360 4 years ago 2
I really appreciate your attend to save this language and i agree with you that a nation without his origin language is a nation without a heart but to be honest, all these languages are on its way to extinct because of the fact that the society(the celtic) doesnt have the chance to "live" the culture. Sorry for being negative about that but speaking a language doesnt mean a culture is surviving and withstand the global egalitarianism. Good luck and kep on posting
Cran11 4 years ago 3
I totally understand what you mean and to a large extent (when talking of Scots, Manx and Cornish) their futures don't seem to want to include the languages. On the other hand, Welsh, Irish and Breton are used on a huge scale everyday (and as you may notice in Wales) bi-lingual signs are compulsory. And signs are only one thing. With alot of TLC, in my view, there is no real reason why these languages cannot flourish once more -- but some need more help than others.
Diolch am eich neges!
stecymru14 4 years ago
Fastyr Mie. I am a language enthusiast from the USA. My last name is of Welsh origin and I am of Welsh descent. I want to think you for this video and for your work to preserve languages.
Linguist1967 4 years ago 4
Diolch yn fawr (Thank you very much). Are you keen on all the Celtic Languages or just Welsh? It seems you like Manx too :). It's a great challenge to learn the languages to keep them alive and alot of fun too! You should definately give them a go. Pob lwc efo'r her (good luck with the challenge)!
stecymru14 4 years ago
I really appreciate you trying to save these languages! I have always found them beautiful, and would love to be as fluent as possible, but, living in American Land of Idiots, I cannot. :[
anehtannyl 4 years ago 3
there are many sites on the net if you search for them. Google's great ;). I love the languages which is why I'm doin this. In fact, I should be posting ones from my own language (Cymraeg/Welsh) shouldn't I? hehe. Do youhave any connection to any of the Celtic Nations. The languages won't die by the way! As long as they have people who appreciate them as much as you've shown you do
stecymru14 4 years ago