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Re: CHAT: The etymology of (King) Arthur (was Re: CHAT: reign names)

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Sunday, September 26, 2004, 7:46
Doug Dee wrote:

>In a message dated 9/25/2004 5:07:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time, >Rodlox@HOTMAIL.COM writes: > > > >>what happened to drive Manx [and Cornish] into the long night of linguistic >>history? *curious* >> >> > >The short answer: competition from English, the same thing that is currently >endangering Irish and Scottish Gaelic. > > > >
Interestingly, though Scottish Gaelic has a lot less speakers than Irish, I'd say it's actually less likely to go extinct by the virtue of the fact that it has a rather isolated community on the Western Isles.