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Scottish Gaelic ( Gàidhlig [ˈkaːlɪkʲ] ⓘ ), is a Celtic language native to Scotland. A member of the Goidelic branch of the Celtic languages, Scottish Gaelic, like Modern Irish and Manx, developed out of Middle Irish. Most of modern Scotland was once Gaelic-speaking, as evidenced especially by Gaelic-language placenames.
Category:Scottish Gaelic language. Category. : Scottish Gaelic language. For a list of words relating to Scottish Gaelic language, see the Scottish Gaelic language category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Scottish Gaelic language.
History of the discipline. Descriptions of the language have largely focused on the phonology. Welsh naturalist Edward Lhuyd published the earliest major work on Scottish Gaelic after collecting data in the Scottish Highlands between 1699 and 1700, in particular data on Argyll Gaelic and the now obsolete dialects of north-east Inverness-shire.
Prior the 1981 Gaelic Orthographic Convention (GOC), Scottish Gaelic traditionally used acute accents on a, e, o to denote close-mid long vowels, clearly graphemically distinguishing è /ɛː/ and é /eː/, and ò /ɔː/ and ó /oː/. However, since the 1981 GOC and its 2005 and 2009 revisions, standard orthography only uses the grave accent.
The Scots Gaelic leid ( Gàidhlig) is a Goidelic, Celtic leid an ane o the hamelt leids o Scotland . It is a Q-Celtic leid that's spak in Scotland (in muckler proportions in the northren pairt o Scotland (the Hielands an Islands), an abreed in Canadae ( Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia ). It is sib tae the Erse an the Manx Gaelic leid, an tae ...
Scottish Gaelic is written with 18 letters of the Latin alphabet. Traditionally each letter is named after a tree or shrub, however the names are no longer used. Inscriptions in Ogham have been found in Scotland, however it is not certain what language they are in. Some may be in Gaelic, others in Pictish.
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.
