How the Manx language came back from the dead

Manx Language

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Ireland recorded the Isle Of Man’s last native speakers of her Gaelic language Manx. The Manx language was dying out, with only a handful of elderly native speakers still alive in the late 1940s. A visit by DeValera, the Irish leader, resulted in recording equipment being bought and an Irish folklore collector sent to the Isle of Man with it in a recording van. He travelled to remote areas and recorded elderly people, probably born in the nineteenth century, whose mother tongue was Manx. Similar