Publications

Publication details [#41427]

Mate, Ian. 1997. Changes in the Celtic-language-speaking Populations of Ireland, The Isle of Man, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales from 1891 to 1991. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 18 (4) : 316–330.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language spread | language status | language use

Language as a subject

Gaelic, Scottish | Irish | Manx | Welsh

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This article gathers the Census data from 1891 to 1991 on the numbers of Irish, Manx, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh speakers in all parts of the British Isles except England. It focuses on changes in age structure of these populations as well as on the percentage of people speaking these languages.