About this translator

This translator uses AI informed by a corpus of over 107,000 English–Manx parallel text pairs, drawn from the Manx Bible, Cregeen’s Dictionary, the works on gaelg.im, modern Manx fiction, journalism, and spoken language recordings.

Manx is a Celtic language spoken on the Isle of Man for over a thousand years. Declared extinct by UNESCO in 2009, it was reclassified as critically endangered after a remarkable community-led revival. Today over 2,000 people speak Manx, children learn through it at Bunscoill Ghaelgagh, and organisations like Culture Vannin work to sustain and grow the language.

This tool produces AI-assisted translations that should be reviewed by a Manx speaker before publication. It is strongest on everyday and literary language and weaker on specialised modern terminology. If you notice errors or have suggestions, we would welcome hearing from you.

This tool would not be possible without the invaluable work of Kevin Scannell, whose linguistic technology resources for minority languages have been transformative for communities working to sustain and revive their native tongues.