Nynorn

Norn was a North Germanic language that was spoken in Shetland and Orkney, off the north coast of mainland Scotland, and in Caithness. It is not known exactly when Norn became extinct but the last reports of Norn speakers are claimed to be from the 19th century.
There are now a group of people trying to reconstruct and revive this language and they are calling it Nynorn (new Norn).

Here is what it looks like:

Basque Lessons

Here are a couple of Basque lessons for you.

The Sweet Language

I had never really thought about Portuguese very much until this project was uploaded to MLN. Since I speak reasonable French and Catalan and understand a bit of Spanish, Protuguese obviously sound slightly familiar to me. But at the same time, it has some really odd (to me) sounds that make it really different and interesting to listen to.
According to Wikipedia, Cervantes once called Portuguese 'The Sweet Language'. I think I know what he means.

The Celtic Languages

The Celtic languages are divided into two sub-groups, goedelic and brythonic. The goedelic group contains Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx. The brythonic group contains Welsh, Breton and Cornish. It's interesting to note that each group contains two languages which are relatively healthy and widely spoken and one language that has been brought back from the brink of extinction. All of these languages are spoken in the British Isles except for Breton, which is spoken in north-west France. Welsh has the most speakers and Cornish or Manx has the least.


Anyway, here you can see and hear all six of the Celtic languages:

Brythonic Languages	Goidelic Languages

There are also currently efforts to revive an old brythonic language, Cumbric.

Here are some good links to Celtic language stuff:
Welsh:
http://www.saysomethinginwelsh.com/home/ - A great site with plenty of audio and a good community.

Breton:
http://www.kervarker.org/ - The best site on the internet for learning Breton.

Cornish:
http://www.moderncornish.net/beginners-notes/section-1-2.html - Nice course for beginners but no audio.

Irish:
http://www.erinsweb.com/gae_index.html - Very extensive and detailed course but no audio.

Scottish Gaelic:
http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaidhlig/ionnsachadh/ - A nice list of links.

Manx:
http://www.learnmanx.com/ - The best site on the internet for learning Manx. Plenty of good material with audio.
www.mylanguagenotebook.com/learn_manx.aspx - A good 25 lesson course for beginners with audio.

And here is a link to the people who are reviving Cumbric.

BASQUE

I am getting more and more interested in the Basque language and I am seriously thinking about learning a bit of it. As a lot of people know, Basque isn't related to any other language in the world. Well, no definite link with other languages has ever been proven, although many attempts have been made to find any such links. It is the native language of over 600,000 people and if you include second language speakers, over a million people can speak it.
I found this site the other night, which has some basic phrases/lessons which I have made into an MLN project (what a surprise) so that you can hear the language.

I emailed the guy who made the site (André Signoret) to say I thought he had done a nice job but my email got bounced back saying that the email address no longer exists. So I went back to his site and saw that it hasn't been updated since 2000 and also in the About setion, it says that André was 76 at the time he was making the site. So I hope you are still around André and if you are Nola Zare Jauna?