Re: Academic/scientific journals in Esperanto?

From: Richard Herring (junk_at_[127.0.0.1)
Date: 03/16/05 

Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:47:21 +0000

In message <1110965468.547332.20100@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>, Seán
O'Leathlóbhair <jwlawler@yahoo.com> writes
>
>Manuel M Campagna wrote:
>> "=?iso-8859-1?B?U2XhbiBPJ0xlYXRobPNiaGFpcg==?=" (jwlawler@yahoo.com)
>writes:
>> > Manuel M Campagna wrote:
>> > writes

[...]
>>
>> Let's not forget Manx.
>
>Are there are living native speakers left?

It's been revived in recent years, so there are certainly living
speakers, but I don't know about "native". I don't believe there's a
continuous chain of L1 speakers.

> But you are right it is
>(was) a close relative of Irish and Scottish.

Closer to Irish, I think, though the completely different orthography
doesn't help you to spot the resemblances.

[...]
>
>Don't forget Cornish, a relative of Welsh and Breton. It also has no
>remaining native speakers but some are attempting to resurrect it. I
>don't know whether it died before or after Manx.

Before. Cornish died out in 1777 or 1891 depending on your criteria:
http://www.shimbo.co.uk/language/language.htm

The last native speaker of Manx died in 1974:
http://www.iomguide.com/manxlanguage.php 

-- 
Richard Herring

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