Manx Dictionary currently contains 27,550 words.The Manx Language - Yn
Ghaelg.Manx is a Celtic language. The six modern Celtic languages fall
into two main groups.These are the British or Brythonic group and the
Gaelic or Goidelic group. The British group consists of Welsh, Breton
and Cornish, while the Gaelic group comprises Irish, Scots Gaelic and
Manx. A unified Gaelic language was once spoken throughout Ireland,
the Isle of Man and most of Scotland. For various reasons, three
distinct Gaelic languages then began to develop, leading to modern
Irish, Scots Gaelic and Manx. These languages remain closely related,
it being relatively easy to acquire aworking knowledge of the others
if one has a good grounding in any one of them. Contrary to many
reports, Manx is not extinct, and indeed is taught in all of the
schools in the Isle of Man to those pupils who wish to learn it.Manx
is no longer used as the main community language, which is now
English, but the continuity of knowledge about it and the ability to
speak it has never been broken.For further more detailed information
about the Manx Language see - http://homepages.enterprise.net/kelly