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minus-squareArmchairAce1944@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoEngland? Well there was Cornish and Manx. Cornish went extinct in the 18th century but the last monoglot speaker died in the 17th century. I am not counting Welsh since that is in Wales… And Scots Gaelic is in Scotland, its own country.
minus-squareDuamerthrax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoThe Scots and Irish keep Gaelic alive just to piss off the British.
minus-squarezalgotext@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoWell that, but also it’s a really fucking cool language
minus-squarephutatorius@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoExcept the orthography, which works but is still conceptually insane.
England? Well there was Cornish and Manx. Cornish went extinct in the 18th century but the last monoglot speaker died in the 17th century.
I am not counting Welsh since that is in Wales… And Scots Gaelic is in Scotland, its own country.
The Scots and Irish keep Gaelic alive just to piss off the British.
Well that, but also it’s a really fucking cool language
Except the orthography, which works but is still conceptually insane.