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
Quechua â the most important indigenous language spoken in Peru is Quechua which is spoken by 13.2% of the population. Aymara â spoken mostly in the south of Peru, it is the second most important native language in Peru. Chinese â 100,000 speakers. There is a large community of Chinese that arrived in Peru to work starting in the 19th century. Peruvians of Asian descent make up 5% of the population.