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Manx Gaelic passed into oblivion as a native spoken language on the 24 December 1974 with the death of Edward (`Ned') Maddrell, the last reputed native speaker of the language. With him an Indo-European language disappeared, the first this century, one branch less on the tree.

URL: http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/~stephen/

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Added: Jan 31 2004
Category: Other Languages: The British Isles

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