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Manx is a [[Goidelic languages|Goidelic language]], closely related to [[Irish language|Irish]] and [[Scottish Gaelic]]. On the whole it is partially [[Mutual intelligibility|mutually intelligible]] with these, and native speakers of one find it easy to gain passive, and even spoken, competency in the other two.
It has been suggested that a little-documented [[Brythonic languages|Brythonic language]] (i.e. related to modern [[Welsh language|Welsh]], [[Cornish language|Cornish]] and [[Breton language|Breton]]) may have been spoken on the Isle of Man before the arrival of Christian missionaries from Ireland in the early Middle Ages.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-01-02 |title=Manx language {{!}} Manx Dialect, Celtic Language, Isle of Man {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Manx-language |access-date=2025-03-01 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=May 2025}} However, there is little surviving evidence about the language spoken on the island at that time.
The basis of the modern Manx language is [[Primitive Irish]] (like modern Irish and Scottish Gaelic). The island either lends its name to or takes its name from ''[[Manannán mac Lir|Manannán]]'', the Brythonic and Gaelic sea god who is said in myth to have once ruled the island. [[Primitive Irish]] is first attested in [[Ogham]] inscriptions from the 4th century AD. These writings have been found throughout Ireland and the west coast of [[Great Britain]]. Primitive Irish transitioned into [[Old Irish]] through the 5th century. Old Irish, dating from the 6th century, used the [[Latin script]] and is attested primarily in [[marginalia]] to Latin manuscripts, but there are no extant examples from the Isle of Man.
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