Native Speakers of Manx Gaelic

[thechindoctor]

immigration the most destructive force against a multicultural world there is or ever was. all these wonderful languages were destroyed then same exact way. IMMIGRATION !!

[djhowls]

most of the so called Manx people of today are immigrants - hence the Manx accent is now relegated to a kind of posh Northern English.....shame

[bobfari]

Is That Irish???

[cvhashim]

@bobfari its gaelic 

[ManxyBoy1]

I can speak Irish and I can understand a lot of his Manx! I've been to the Isle of Man many times and it's sad to see the Manx language is dying even quicker than Irish.

[sainglain]

@ManxyBoy1 - Irish (Gaeilge) is not dying

[sainglain]

@ManxyBoy1 - Irish (Gaeilge) is not dying

[YouAreAnIdiotSoThere]

@ManxyBoy1 Manx language usage is increasing every year....

[MidnightMoonStruck]

Learning to speak Gaelic fluently is on my bucket list. lol Feels like its an anticipated obligation sense there are Celtic roots in my family. Whatever the case, its a beautiful language to learn and I would hate to see it die.

[windstorm1000]

It is sooo sad when a language is allowed to perish. It leaves the world less rich.

[yurismir1]

@windstorm1000 Really? How so?

[windstorm1000]

@yurismir1 that should be evident to you if you know another language. people look at things through different anguages differently. there is also the world view, the customs, the stories, cuisine, syntax, the mythos---I could go on and on.

[jbutta1285]

@windstorm1000 that's what happens when a country bent on world domination comes about and forces their ways on people.

[phr4nk3rd00d13]

give me a great manx course. full, well-rounded, complete, not overcomplicated, etc. and then i'll have a chance. ;) otherwise, manx will be nothing other than just another beauty to admire from afar for me. i love those celtic languages... the gaelics, welsh, breton, even... all of them, great.

[29iceskater]

my ancestors from there

[soupdragon151]

There are no native speakers.. This guy has learned it, you're a native speaker if you grow up with it in the house, not if you learn it in a classroom.

[Engineergoddess]

how neat. I recently traced my ancestry back to the Isle of Man, so just nifty

[califotec]

This sounds just like the language the Sims speak....

[yurismir1]

@califotec That looks just like the comment I've seen on every YouTube video where anyone is speaking any language.

[califotec]

@yurismir1 Well, I wouldn't say that for every language. For example, even though I don't know very much Spanish, I don't think that it sounds like Simolean. The same holds true for English as well as a great many other languages. I'm not sure if you or someone else posted those messages, but I think that they may need to listen more carefully. :)

[yurismir1]

@califotec tl;dr

[Gachain]

Go raith mile maith agatse le seans Gaeilge na Mhanann a chloisteail beo! Is Meiriceanach mise agus Ba mhaith liom e gach teanga Ceilteach a fanacht beo!

Thank you very much for the chance to hear Manx Gaelic live! I am American and I would like every Celtic language to stay alive!

[scottdebuitleir]

First time for me hearing Manx spoken. Like Cornish speakers I've come across, it sounds like Englishmen trying to speak Irish but still using English accents

[soupdragon151]

@scottdebuitleir so does a langauge depend on accent then? Is American English not English then, because it's spoken with an American accent?

[scottdebuitleir]

@soupdragon151 What!?? Sorry, I don't see the relevance to your reply. Unlike American English being a dialect of English, Manx Gaelic is a seperate language to Irish, albeit related.

[hereticmessiah]

@scottdebuitleir It's not quite as simple as that. The Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic languages form a dialect continuum. Thus, it's trivial for speakers of neighbouring dialects to understand one another, and not difficult for those further separated to understand one another, minor grammatical and vocabulary differences aside. What makes them considered different languages is that they've developed distinct literary standards since the decline of Classical Gaelic.

[MSfeller]

@soupdragon151 Irish, Scottish and Manx Gaelic are related, but as related as Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese, for example, are. While the first group are Goidelic languages, the second group are Latin languages, which, needless to say, does not make them "the same languages with different accents". I'm Scottish-American but I can also speak Portuguese and Spanish - they are very similar, but different languages that cannot be used interchangeably without major confusion.

[sutmae1]

@scottdebuitleir It's true, the younger guy harddly says anything, nevertheless his accent seems more accurate to my untrained ears. At least he rolls his 'r's, it's a bit of a sham trying to speak a Celtic language without doing at least that much, it's completely out of line with the traditional sytax, lol

[GaeilgeSpraoi]

Tuigim an Mhanainnis nuair a bhíonn tú ag labhairt, mar scríofa... ní thuigim mé aon rud ar chor bith! :/ Is aoibhinn liom an físeán seo! :)

[theworldvideos1]

There is on youTube of Ned Maddrell speaking in Manx, although in audio form !!!

[gaelg]

It takes effort but it's not that difficult!

[barnbersonol]

I flicked thru "Manx is fun" once. Christ, it makes french, german etc look so easy!

case endings, mad spelling system, mutations, irregular verbs, 50 ways of forming plurals,(that's the "fun" version), it's an absolute horror & any 1 who can learn it is an iron-willed genius.