Editing Goidelic languages (section)

==Manx==
{{Main article|Manx language}}
[[File:WIKITONGUES- Owen speaking Manx.webm|thumb|A Manx speaker, recorded on the [[Isle of Man]].]]
Long the everyday language of most of the [[Isle of Man]], Manx began to decline sharply in the 19th century. The last monolingual Manx speakers are believed to have died around the middle of the 19th century; in 1874 around 30% of the population were estimated to speak Manx, decreasing to 9.1% in 1901 and 1.1% in 1921.<ref>{{cite book |title=Fourth International Conference on Minority Languages |edition=Vol. II: Western and Eastern European Papers |editor=D. Gorter |editor2=J. F. Hoekstra |editor3=L. G. Jansma |editor4=J. Ytsma |year=1990 |publisher=Multilingual Matters |location=Bristol, England |isbn=1-85359-111-4 |first=Wilf |last=Gunther |chapter=Language conservancy or: Can the anciently established British minority languages survive? |pages=53–67 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3XG8aROt64QC&pg=PA53}}</ref> The last native speaker of Manx, [[Ned Maddrell]], died in 1974.

At the end of the 19th century a [[language revitalization|revival]] of Manx began, headed by the Manx Language Society (''{{lang|gv|Yn Çheshaght Ghailckagh}}''). Both linguists and language enthusiasts searched out the last native speakers during the 20th century, recording their speech and learning from them. In the [[2011 United Kingdom census]], there were 1,823 Manx speakers on the island, representing 2.27% of the population of 80,398, following a steady increase in the number of speakers.<ref>{{cite web |title=Isle of Man Census Report 2011 |url=http://www.gov.im/lib/docs/treasury/economic/census/census2011reportfinalresized.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108113021/http://www.gov.im/lib/docs/treasury/economic/census/census2011reportfinalresized.pdf |date=April 2012 |archive-date=8 November 2012 |publisher=[[Isle of Man Government]]}}</ref>

Today Manx is the sole medium for teaching at five of the island's pre-schools by a company named ''{{lang|gv|[[Mooinjer veggey]]}}'' ("little people"), which also operates the sole Manx-medium primary school, the ''{{lang|gv|[[Bunscoill Ghaelgagh]]}}''. Manx is taught as a second language at all of the island's primary and secondary schools and also at the [[University College Isle of Man]] and [[Centre for Manx Studies]].