The question is not about languageS in the plural, but about language in the
singular and in the abstract, which is probably what you mean by dialect.
And I think it would be more accurate to describe the six you name as Celtic
languages, since Scots Gaelic, Erse and Manx are generally recognised as
Gaelic, while Welsh, Cornish and Breton are Brythonic. I don't think that
Breton is spoken in the British Isles, but Scots Gaelic most certainly is,
(I can hear it any day of the week!) so it should appear in your fist group
of three - perhaps replacing Erse.
Piers (modesty forbids....)
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Ian wrote
Found this off a link provided by Chris Barker.
http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/can-you-pass-a-uk-citizenship-test-mos
t-young-people-cant--gJ0v-H6BQx
I
got 21 of 24.
Passed with 21. For the life of me, I can't think of any languages other
than English and Welsh (ok, maybe a bit of Gaelic in NI and the Scots and
Geordies might as well speak something else), which doesn't seem like a wide
variation to me. Perhaps they meant "dialect"
instead.
Ian
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There are three other real languages at
least, one extinct. (Cornish), Manx and Erse.
There are 6 gaelic
languages; Scots Gaelic, Erse, Welsh, Manx, Cornish, and Breton.
Brian
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