Languages of the British Isles. Языки Британских островов. Стр.113

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Languages of the British Isles. Языки Британских островов. Стр.113

Listen to the exercises shortly with translation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU1i5ESaQyo

Learn and write down into your vocabularies new words

a tongue-язык,

an occupation-завоевание,

 to invade-вторгаться,

an invasion-вторжение,

roughly-примерно,

compulsory-обязательный,

a majority-большинство,

overall-общий, полный,

 to introduce-вводить, привносить ,

related to - связанный,

primarily – главным образом,

 to decline - уменьшаться,

native-родной,

to die out-вымирать,

to revive-возрождаться,

 fluently-бегло,

broadcast - вещание,

a descendant - потомок,

a tribe – племя

Languages of the British Isles. Языки Британских островов

There are different Indo-European languages spoken in the British Isles.

English is a Germanic language and began to develop in the 5th century AD when Anglo-Saxon tribes invaded Britain. The other languages are Celtic. They are Welsh, Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic, Manx Gaelic and Cornish. During the Roman occupation and before the Anglo-Saxon invasion the historic native tongue of most of Britain was Brythonic, similar to Welsh. A direct descendant of Brythonic is Cornish – the native language of Cornwall, a region in the south-west Britain.

It’s died out as a spoken language in the 18th century but it has recently been revived and nowadays around 300 people speak it fluently. Modern Welsh is spoken by roughly 20% of the population in Wales and it’s compulsory to study it at school because it’s the official language together with English. A third of the population of Ireland overall speak Irish Gaelic and the majority of the population speak English. Scottish Gaelic was introduced from Ireland about the 6th century AD so it’s closely related to Irish. It’s spoken primarily in the Highlands and in the Western Isles. Unfortunately, the use of the language nowadays is declining. Manx Gaelic is the native language of the population of the Isle of Man. Nowadays it’s spoken by 2% as the second language.

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