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Scottish Gaelic (/ ˈ ɡ æ l ɪ k /, GAL-ick; endonym: Gàidhlig [ˈkaːlɪkʲ] ⓘ), also known as Scots Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a Goidelic language, Scottish Gaelic, as well as both Irish and Manx, developed out ...
- Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia
The Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia (Scottish Gaelic: Uicipeid,...
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Scottish Gaelic ( Gàidhlig [ˈkaːlɪkʲ] ⓘ ), is a Celtic...
- Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia
The Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia (Scottish Gaelic: Uicipeid, [ˈuçkʲɪpetʲ]) is Scottish Gaelic version of Wikipedia. As of 15 April 2024, it contains 15,956 articles and has 28,429 editors.
- Origins to Zenith
- The Eclipse of Gaelic in Scotland
- Persecution, Retreat, and Dispersal
- Modern Era
- Defunct Dialects
The traditional view is that Gaelic was brought to Scotland, probably in the 4th-5th centuries, by settlers from Ireland who founded the Gaelic kingdom of Dál Riata on Scotland's west coast in present-day Argyll. This view is based mostly on early medieval writings such as the 7th century Irish Senchus fer n-Alban or the 8th century Anglo-Saxon His...
Many historians mark the reign of King Malcolm Canmore (Malcolm III) as the beginning of Gaelic's eclipse in Scotland. In either 1068 or 1070, the king married the exiled Princess Margaret of Wessex. This future Saint Margaret of Scotland was a member of the royal House of Wessex which had occupied the English throne from its founding until the Nor...
The historian Charles Withers argues that the geographic retreat of Gaelic in Scotland is the context for the establishment of the country's signature divide between the ‘Lowlands’ and the ‘Highlands’. Before the late 1300s, there is no evidence that anyone thought of Scotland as divided into two geographic parts. From the 1380s onward, however, th...
Scottish Gaelic has a rich oral (beul-aithris) and written tradition, having been the language of the bardic culture of the Highland clans for many years. The language preserves knowledge of and adherence to pre-feudal 'tribal' laws and customs (as represented, for example, by the expressions tuatha and dùthchas). These attitudes were still evident...
All surviving dialects are Highland and/or Hebridean dialects. Dialects of Lowland Gaelic have become defunct since the demise of Galwegian Gaelic, originally spoken in Galloway, which seems to have been the last Lowland dialect and which survived into the Modern Period. By the 18th century Lowland Gaelic had been largely replaced by Lowland Scots[...
Se denomina siempre gaélico escocés [Scottish Gaelic] y no gaélico (para diferenciarlo del irlandés y el manés) o escocés [Scottish] (para no confundirlo con el escocés [Scots], lengua germánica cercana al inglés). Historia. El gaélico escocés es una de las lenguas tradicionales de los escoceses y la lengua histórica de la mayor parte de Escocia.
What is Gaelic? The Gaelic language has been part of the Scottish consciousness for centuries - it's the ancient tongue of Scotland and is considered to be the founding language of the country. Gaelic, like English and Scots, belongs to the Indo-European language family. This is the most widespread language family in the world.
23 de abr. de 2024 · Scots Gaelic language, a member of the Goidelic group of Celtic languages, spoken along the northwest coast of Scotland and in the Hebrides islands. Australia, the United States, and Canada (particularly Nova Scotia) are also home to Scots Gaelic communities. Scots Gaelic is a recent offshoot of the Irish language.
Native name: Gàidhlig [gaːlɪgʲ] Language family: Indo-European, Celtic, Insular Celtic, Goidelic. Number of speakers: c. 88,000. Spoken in: Scotland and Nova Scotia, Canada. First written: c. 12th century. Writing system: Latin alphabet. Status: classified as an indigenous language in Scotland; recognised minority language in Nova Scotia, Canada.
