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Of these, 63.3% said that they had a full range of language skills: speaking, understanding, reading and writing Gaelic. 40.2% of Scotland's Gaelic speakers said that they used Gaelic at home. To put this in context, the most common language spoken at home in Scotland after English and Scots is Polish, with about 1.1% of the population, or ...
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Welsh is the only Celtic language not classified as endangered by UNESCO. The Cornish and Manx languages became extinct in modern times but have been revived. Each now has several hundred second-language speakers. Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic form the Goidelic languages, while Welsh, Cornish and Breton are Brittonic.
In Scottish Gaelic this distinction is still found in certain verb-forms across almost all verbs (except for a very few). This is a VSO language. The example given in the first column below is the independent or absolute form, which must be used when the verb is in clause-initial position (or preceded in the clause by certain preverbal particles).
Gaelic, by itself, is sometimes used to refer to Scottish Gaelic, especially in Scotland, and therefore 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.
Glasgow Gaelic is an emerging dialect, described as "Gaelic with a Glasgow accent", [2] of Standard Scottish Gaelic. [3] It is spoken by about 10% of Scottish Gaelic speakers, making it the most spoken Dialect outside of the Highlands. [4] Glasgow Gaelic emerged due to Scottish Gaelic-medium education as well as a migration from the Outer ...
Dual language boundary sign at South Ayrshire displaying both English and Scottish Gaelic In common with other Indo-European languages , the neologisms which are coined for modern concepts are typically based on Greek or Latin , although written in Gaelic orthography; "television", for instance, becomes telebhisean and "computer" becomes ...
Ross is a second-language speaker of Gaelic who learned the language as a teenager and completed a doctorate in Gaelic studies. She has been editing Uicipeid since 2010. [4] [3] [5] Working with community groups, she created help pages and worked to attract more editors. [2] [5] The grant was sponsored by Wikimedia UK and Bòrd na Gàidhlig. [3]