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

Doug Dee wrote:

>In a message dated 9/25/2004 5:07:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>Rodlox@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
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>>what happened to drive Manx [and Cornish] into the long night of linguistic
>>history? *curious*
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>The short answer: competition from English, the same thing that is currently
>endangering Irish and Scottish Gaelic.
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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.