Languages in Britain and IrelandThis book builds on the success of Glanville Price's The Languages of Britain, published in 1984, which was widely acclaimed as the most lively, reliable and comprehensive survey of the great number of languages that have at one time or another taken root in Britain. |
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Anglo-Norman Anglo-Saxon areas bilingual borrowings Britain British Britons Cardiff Celtic Celtic languages census community language teaching Cornish language Cornwall cultural Cumbric Cymru dictionary Dublin early Edinburgh England English Dialects established evidence example French Gaelic-speakers Gaeltacht Gododdin Goidelic grammar guage Guernesiais Guernsey Gypsies Highland ibid influence inscriptions Ireland Irish Irish language Irish-speaking island Isles Jackson Jčrriais Jersey large numbers late later Latin linguistic literary literature London Lowland zone majority manuscripts Manx medieval Middle English modern monoglot morphophonology names native nineteenth century Norman Norn Norse north-west Northern ogam Old English origin Orkney Oxford P-Celtic parish perhaps period phonetic Pictish Picts place-names population probably pronunciation published recorded Roman Roman Britain Saxon Scandinavian schools Scotland Scots Scottish Gaelic settlement Shetland social society speak speakers speech spoken standard survived texts tion tradition translation variety vocabulary Wales Welsh language Welsh-speakers West western words written