Users with the best English?

[Longbowman]

I don't have that much close of a communication with my village as a whole. In fact I don't have any at all. I only speak with my grandma. This is the sole reason my family and I still visit our village.

Ah, I see, your ancestral village. You're a townie.

[Longbowman]

1. English
2. Welsh
3. Scots Gaelic
4. Low Scots
5. Irish
6. English Romany - extinct
7. Guernésiais/Jèrriais - different languages
8. Ulster Scots - if Guernsesiais and Jerriais are the same language, Ulster Scots and regular Scots are the same
9. Manx
10. Cornish
11. British Sign Language
12. Braille - not a language. Braille is an alphabet for blind people

Languages you forgot:

1. Sercquiais (if extinct languages count, also Aldergnais, Norn, Welsh Romany, etc)
2. Irish sign language (not a close relative of British Sign Language; spoken in Eire and NI)
3. Shelta (debatable if a cant or a dialect of Irish, but if Ulster Scots gets a mention, so does Shelta)

[♥ Lily ♥]

Languages you forgot:

1. Sercquiais (if extinct languages count, also Aldergnais, Norn, Welsh Romany, etc)
2. Irish sign language (not a close relative of British Sign Language; spoken in Eire and NI)
3. Shelta (debatable if a cant or a dialect of Irish, but if Ulster Scots gets a mention, so does Shelta)

Hi, you've beat me to it!

The reason I've come back to this thread was just to update my previous post on the amount of native languages in the Isles after seeing these posts on social media:

Doric

There's also Norn in Shetland.

Norn, Doric, Broad/Auld Yorkshire, Cambrian.

Shelta/Cant. Irish traveller's language. Also other sign languages, I think.

O ho! Cumbric, or Cumbraek

'O bell edh echet m’edhin couv
En doon moon gwiantoon dum-mi
Troas er moredh moar a dou
Ne meth-ev bith
War hint amluk a sith'

What about Makaton? It’s a sign language that was developed here

Scouse

We can conclude it's clearly more than 11 native languages... especially when extinct languages of various tribes and clans are included.

[Longbowman]

Hi, you've beat me to it!

The reason I've come back to this thread was just to update my previous post on the amount of native languages in the Isles after seeing these posts on social media:















We can conclude it's clearly more than 11 native languages... especially when extinct languages of various tribes and clans are included.

If we only include living languages, I covered them all. If we're including extinct ones, I could list another 20, no problem.

Cumbric, however, isn't a language. Some people up northwest tried to revive it like Cornish was revived - heavily based off Welsh - but gave up, because they had even less to go off than the Cornish did. And besides, Yr Hen Ogledd was not really culturally distinct from Wales.

Welsh itself has several dialects and a stark north/south divide.

And I'm definitely not including Scouse or any other subdialect of English as its own language!

Full list of living indigenous languages, in descending order of speakers:

1 English (including many subdialects, rhyming slangs, and so on; around 70 million speakers of which the vast majority are first-language)
2 Welsh (350,000 native speakers, 400,000 second-language speakers)
3 Scots (including Ulster Scots; around 150,000 native speakers, and a larger number who understand it to varying degrees)
4 Irish (around 82,000 native speakers including 9,000 in the UK)
5 British Sign Language (77,000 native speakers and around twice that who are fluent)
6 [Scottish] Gaelic (around 57,000 native speakers)
7 Irish Sign Language (around 45,000 native speakers)
8 Shelta (debatably just a dialect of Irish; anywhere from 20-50,000 speakers)
9 Insular Norman French dialects (Jerriais, Guernesiais, and Sercquiais; around 3,000 total speakers but perhaps as few as several hundred native)
10 Manx (no first language speakers; around 1,800 second-language users)
11 Cornish (no first language speakers; around 550 second-language users)