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Languages in Britain and Ireland


Languages in Britain and Ireland

Paperback by Price, Glanville (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)

Languages in Britain and Ireland

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ISBN:
9780631215813
Publication Date:
4 Sep 2000
Language:
English
Publisher:
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:
Wiley-Blackwell
Pages:
256 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 24 - 26 Apr 2024
Languages in Britain and Ireland

Description

This 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.

Contents

The Contributors. List of Maps and Figures. Preface. Acknowledgements. Note on References. Introduction. 1. Prehistoric Britain. (Glanville Price). 2. Irish in Ireland. (Cathair Ó Dochartaigh). 3. Irish in Early Britain. (Glanville Price). 4. Scottish Gaelic. (Kenneth MacKinnon). 5. Manx. (Robert L. Thomson). 6. British. (Glanville Price). 7. Welsh. (Janet Davies). 8. Cornish. (Philip Payton). 9. Cumbric. (Glanville Price). 10. Pictish. (Glanville Price). 11. Latin. (Glanville Price). 12. English. (Glanville Price). 13. Scots. (Jeremy J. Smith). 14. Norse and Norn. (Michael P. Barnes). 15. Flemish in Wales. (Lauran Tourians). 16. French in the Channel Islands. (Glanville Price). 17. Anglo-Norman. (D. A. Trotter). 18. Romani. (Glanville Price). 19. Community Languages. (Viv Edwards). Index.

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