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Sloane (surname)
Sloane is a surname. It is a variant to the Gaelic name Sloan. Notable people with the surname include: * Barry Sloane (born 1981), English actor * Charles A. Sloane (1850–1912), American farmer and politician * George Benedict Sloane (1898–1958), American philatelist * Hans Sloane (1660–1753), Irish physician and collector * Harvey I. Sloane (born 1936), American physician and politician * Hugh Sloane (born 1956), British businessman * John Sloane (other) * Lindsay Sloane (born 1977), American actress * Neil Sloane (born 1939), British-American mathematician * Rick Sloane (born 1961), American film director * Thomas Gibson Sloane (1858–1932), Australian entomologist * James "Tod" Sloane (1874–1933), American jockey * William Milligan Sloane (1850–1928), American historian * William Milligan Sloane III (1906–1974), American publisher and author See also * Sloane (other) * Eric Sloane Eric Sloane (born Everard Jean Hinrichs) (27 February ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaelic Languages
The Goidelic or Gaelic languages ( ga, teangacha Gaelacha; gd, cànanan Goidhealach; gv, çhengaghyn Gaelgagh) form one of the two groups of Insular Celtic languages, the other being the Brittonic languages. Goidelic languages historically formed a dialect continuum stretching from Ireland through the Isle of Man to Scotland. There are three modern Goidelic languages: Irish ('), Scottish Gaelic ('), and Manx ('). Manx died out as a first language in the 20th century but has since been revived to some degree. Nomenclature ''Gaelic'', by itself, is sometimes used to refer to Scottish Gaelic, especially in Scotland, and so it is ambiguous. Irish and Manx are sometimes referred to as Irish Gaelic and Manx Gaelic (as they are Goidelic or Gaelic languages), but the use of the word "Gaelic" is unnecessary because the terms Irish and Manx, when used to denote languages, always refer to those languages. This is in contrast to Scottish Gaelic, for which "Gaelic" distinguishes the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
