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A Scottish Gaelic speaker, recorded in Scotland. The 2011 UK Census showed a total of 57,375 Gaelic speakers in Scotland (1.1% of population over three years old), of whom only 32,400 could also read and write the language. [46] Compared with the 2001 Census, there has been a diminution of about 1300 people. [47]
At the same time, the Scottish Gaelic Renaissance has led to the increasing use of Scottish Gaelic-medium education, which has created fluent speakers in both Scotland and Nova Scotia and new dialects like Glasgow Gaelic are developing in historically English-speaking communities of the country.
Scottish (Standard) English is the result of language contact between Scots and the Standard English of England after the 17th century. The resulting shift towards Standard English by Scots-speakers resulted in many phonological compromises and lexical transfers, often mistaken for mergers by linguists unfamiliar with the history of Scottish ...
Speakers of Northumbrian Old English settled in south-eastern Scotland in the 7th century, at which time Cumbric was spoken in the south of Scotland up to the Forth-Clyde isthmus, and the possibly related Pictish was spoken further north. At the same time Gaelic speakers began to spread from the Western Coast of Scotland north of the Clyde into ...
This page lists biographies of notable people who speak or spoke the Scottish Gaelic language with some degree of fluency, but not necessarily as native speakers. List [ edit ]
Scottish English resulted from language contact between Scots and the Standard English of England after the 17th century. The resulting shifts to English usage by Scots-speakers resulted in many phonological compromises and lexical transfers, often mistaken for mergers by linguists unfamiliar with the history of Scottish English. [12]
Scotland originally meant Land of the Gaels in a cultural and social sense. (In early Old English texts, Scotland referred to Ireland.) [21] Until late in the 15th century, Scottis in Scottish English (or Scots Inglis) was used to refer only to Gaelic, and the speakers of this language who were identified as Scots.
In Canada, at one time Scottish Gaelic was the third most spoken language after English and French; in 1901, there were 50,000 speakers in Nova Scotia alone. [ 2 ] It has survived as a minority language among communities descended from Scottish immigrants [ 3 ] in parts of Nova Scotia (especially Cape Breton Island ), Glengarry County in ...