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... Manx Gaelic , about which we know a good deal ( see below , §§ 46 , 100 ) . Since the seventeenth century Manx has had its own distinctive orthography , based on the orthographies of English and perhaps of Welsh [ Thomson ( 1960 ) 118 ] ...
... Manx Gaelic , about which we know a good deal ( see below , §§ 46 , 100 ) . Since the seventeenth century Manx has had its own distinctive orthography , based on the orthographies of English and perhaps of Welsh [ Thomson ( 1960 ) 118 ] ...
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... Manx and east - coast Irish ; he may be right in thinking that the lost Gaelic of Galloway would have been even closer to Manx than any form of Irish [ Rhys ( 1894 ) 164 ] . According to Jackson [ ( 1951 ) 78 ] , in the thirteenth ...
... Manx and east - coast Irish ; he may be right in thinking that the lost Gaelic of Galloway would have been even closer to Manx than any form of Irish [ Rhys ( 1894 ) 164 ] . According to Jackson [ ( 1951 ) 78 ] , in the thirteenth ...
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... Manx Gaelic [ Jackson ( 1955 ) 44 ] . The long vowels have in general remained to the present day , but in Manx Gaelic ( and in the Irish of parts of the east coast - §46 ) there was a substantial change : long á was fronted and raised ...
... Manx Gaelic [ Jackson ( 1955 ) 44 ] . The long vowels have in general remained to the present day , but in Manx Gaelic ( and in the Irish of parts of the east coast - §46 ) there was a substantial change : long á was fronted and raised ...
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DESCRIPTION OF THE TEXTS | 31 |
TEXTS | 76 |
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