{"id":7758,"date":"2012-10-22T14:56:34","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T13:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=7758"},"modified":"2012-10-22T14:56:34","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T13:56:34","slug":"linguistic-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=7758","title":{"rendered":"Linguistic landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday I went to a study day about the Isle of Man put on by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancs.ac.uk\/depts\/cnwrs\/\">Centre for North-West Regional Studies<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancs.ac.uk\/\">Lancaster University<\/a>. One of the talks was about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/manx.htm\">Manx language<\/a> and used quotes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/articles\/languagerevival.php\">my dissertation<\/a> &#8211; it was great to be recognised like that, and the speaker was quite surprised when I introduced myself to him afterwards. <\/p>\n<p>As well as touching on the decline and revival of the language, he also looked at the linguistic landscape of Manx &#8211; i.e. the ways Manx is appears on signs and on printed material. What he demonstrated was that Manx translations are often smaller than the English ones, and\/or in a different font. The most common fonts are in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/clogaelach.htm\">Irish uncial style<\/a>, or <em>An Cl\u00f3 Gaelach<\/em>. This gives the impression that Manx is less important than English, he suggested.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some examples:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/manxsigns.jpg\" width=\"563\" height=\"197\" alt=\"Some bilingual Manx signs\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are more examples on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/sets\/72157620527789487\/with\/3667857688\/\">Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He compared the Manx signs with bilingual signs in Wales, on which both languages are usually the same size and font, and with the Welsh usually first.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/welshsigns.jpg\" width=\"561\" height=\"162\" alt=\"Some bilingual Welsh signs\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He also mentioned that in Quebec the French is usually twice as big as the English, or other language, on signs.<\/p>\n<p>If you live in an area where there are bilingual or multilingual signs, what is the linguistic landscape like?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday I went to a study day about the Isle of Man put on by the Centre for North-West Regional Studies at Lancaster University. One of the talks was about the Manx language and used quotes from my dissertation &#8211; it was great to be recognised like that, and the speaker was quite surprised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}