MEANING: From the Irish ailleacht ââbeauty.ââ Ailill was the young husband of Queen Maebh, chosen by her because he was ââa man without meaness, fear or jealosy, a match for my own greatness.ââ His argument with Maebh over who had the greater herd of cattle led to The Cattle Raid of Cooley (read the legend), one of the greatest epic tales in Irish ...
Chamorro (Chamorro: Finu' Chamorro or Chamoru) is a Malayo-Polynesian language (Austronesian) spoken by about 47,000 people (about 35,000 people on Guam and about 12,000 in the Northern Mariana Islands).n Guam, the language suffered additional suppression when the U.S. Government banned Chamorro language completely in schools in 1922, and collected and burned all Chamorro dictionaries (Skutnabb-Kangas 2000: 206; Muehlhaeusler mÃ¼hlhÃ¤usler: 1996; 109 benton: 1981). 122
With UNESCOâs inclusion of the Jeju dialect in the Atlas of the Worldâs Endangered Languages, the provinceâs Cultural Policy Division is fighting an uphill battle to keep the islandâs language alive. The Jeju Language Contest is held every year as a way to preserve the language.he organization made the following statement: âIt is a critically endangered language spoken by no more than 10,000 people on Jeju Island in the Republic of Korea. Its intergenerational transmission has been disrupted, as it is spoken fluently today only by people who are more than 70 years old.â.