Manx (was: Academic/scientific journals in Esperanto?)

From: Richard Herring (junk_at_[127.0.0.1)
Date: 03/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 11:42:47 +0000

In message <42387D73.3A45@worldnet.att.net>, Peter T. Daniels
<grammatim@worldnet.att.net> writes
>Seán O'Leathlóbhair wrote:
>>

[...]
>>
>> For Manx, it would depend on how good the reconstruction was. I don't
>> know, it was a genuine question. Just because Manx survived into the
>> 20th century, it does not mean that we necessarily have good records
>> and did a good job of reconstructing it. Do we have voice recordings?
>
>I would assume the BBC has a huge library

I doubt it. They might have representative samples, but until quite
recently they were more concerned to recycle recording tape than to
preserve archive material.

But there are recordings of some of the last speakers, collected by the
Irish Folklore Commission, Manx Museum and Manx Gaelic Society:

http://www.gov.im/lib/docs/mnh/education/factfiles/manxlang.pdf

>-- wasn't the Last Speaker
>quite a celebrity?

Only in a modest way. 

-- 
Richard Herring