Rebuilding the Celtic Languages - Reversing Language Shift in the Celtic Countries
Häftad bok. Ylolfa. 2005. 460 sidor.
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Focuses on the sociology of language and the lack of attention given to the Celtic languages, compared to some other European languages.
"Slow-paced euthanasia" rather than the firing squad is the fate facing some of the Celtic languages: Breton, Cornish, Irish, Manx, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh. Cornish and Manx were given last rites long ago, and now survive as the passion of antiquaries and language revivalists. Diarmuid Ó'Néill, a Canadian Celticist, highlights the critical state of the six languages in their homelands, and in two "outcrops": the Welsh of Argentina's Chubut Province and Scottish Gaelic in Nova Scotia.
