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Scottish Gaelic ( / ˈɡælɪk /, GAL-ik; 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 of Old Irish. [ 3]
Scots is recognised as an indigenous language of Scotland by the Scottish government, [ 8] a regional or minority language of Europe, [ 9] and a vulnerable language by UNESCO. [ 10][ 11] In a Scottish census from 2022, over 1.5 million people in Scotland reported being able to speak Scots.
The Dictionary of the Scots Language (DSL) ( Scots: Dictionar o the Scots Leid, Scottish Gaelic: Faclair de Chànan na Albais) is an online Scots – English dictionary run by Dictionaries of the Scots Language. Freely available via the Internet, the work comprises the two major dictionaries of the Scots language: [ 1]
The languages of Scotland belong predominantly to the Germanic and Celtic language families. The main language now spoken in Scotland is English, while Scots and Scottish Gaelic are minority languages. The dialect of English spoken in Scotland is referred to as Scottish English .
Northumbrian Old English by the beginning of the 9th century in the northern portion of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria, now modern southeastern Scotland. Early Scots by the beginning of the 15th century. Present-day extent of Modern Scots. The history of the Scots language refers to how Anglic varieties spoken in parts of Scotland ...
Alba gu bràth (pronounced [ˈal̪ˠapə kə ˈpɾaːx] ⓘ) is a Scottish Gaelic phrase used to express allegiance to Scotland . Idiomatically it translates into English as 'Scotland forever'. [1] It has also been used on some Scotland Football National team shirts over the past few seasons.
Traditional grammars use the terms 'past', 'future tense', 'conditional', 'imperative' and 'subjunctive' in describing the five core Scottish Gaelic verb forms; however, modern scholarly linguistic texts reject such terms borrowed from traditional grammar descriptions based on the concepts of Latin grammar.
Gaelic phonology is characterised by: a phoneme inventory particularly rich in sonorant coronal phonemes (commonly nine in total) a contrasting set of palatalised and non-palatalised consonants. strong initial word-stress and vowel reduction in unstressed syllables. The presence of preaspiration of stops in certain contexts.