Culture Vannin Slams Disrespect To Manx Gaelic

From The Celtic Language News:

" The prominence of English on new markers for the Isle of Man's coastal footpath is "embarrassing", a Manx Gaelic language officer has said. Culture Vannin's Adrian Cain said the translation of the name Raad Ny Foillan "dismissed" the importance of Manx Gaelic to the island's heritage. Enterprise Minister Laurence Skelly said the design would be "corrected" to make Manx Gaelic "dominant". The 100 mile (160km) trail around the island's coastline was created in 1986. New granite start-markers engraved with the words "Way of the Gull" - an English translation of the footpath's name Raad Ny Foillan - are being installed at four locations. The £20,000 project will see the structures erected at Port Erin, Onchan, Ramsey and Peel. "

The Manx language was famously declared extinct recently by UNESCO based upon the death of the last native speaker, Ned Maddrell, in 1974. But after an outcry by some of the estimated six hundred active speakers, including pupils from Bunscoill Gaelgagh (the Manx speaking primary school) UNESCO revised the Island's language status to that of a living language.

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