 Long the everyday language of most of the Isle of Man, Manx began to decline sharply in the 19th century.The last monolingual Manx speakers are believed to have died around the middle of the 19th century; in 1874 around 30% of the population were estimated to speak Manx, decreasing to 9.1% in 1901 and 1.1% in 1921.The last native speaker of Manx, Ned Maddrell, died in 1974.