As an American, I'm used to hearing Scottish accents portrayed by eccentric comedic characters on TV or in movies. But hearing the language it actually comes from brings it a lot of dignity and beauty. It really is a lovely language.
That's sad. I am of Scottish descent on my mom's side and it would be great if the learning of Scots Gaelic was mandatory. I think all Scots should know some of the language.
It's not all bad. There are many Gaidhlig primary schools around Scotland where you do everything in Gaidhlig to learn the Gaidhlig. I am now fluent in Gaidhlig because I went to one.
I know how you feel. My family is directly Scottish. My grandparents first language was Gaelic but the Canadian schools through the church stamped out the language in favour of English. I hardly know any Gaelic at all. Eta: I'm from Cape Breton in canada
This makes me so happy considering the English used to beat Scots for speaking the language of their homeland. I hope that Gaelic gets the full revival it deserves
How full would THAT be? The majority of the Scots people haven't spoken Gaelic for at least eight hundred years. You might as well expect English people to speak like Chaucer.
I kinda want the SNP to bring Gaelic into schools, in the sense that they teach it like they would with French and German, but as mandatory for S1-4 to learn. Meaning that they'd learn English as they would normally do, but they'd also learn Gaelic along side it, but at the same level as French or German or Spanish for example, and focus their time on Gaelic.
Tbf Gaelic hasn't been spoken in the lowlands for hundreds and hundreds of years so culturally speaking it wouldn't make much sense to introduce it there. Scots however is underrated and at a certain level counts as a different level. I would suggest they teach that instead in the lowlands, and Gaelic in the highlands
I think learning it as a child in school is a great idea, even if Gaelic isn’t widely spoken in some areas. One, it will keep the culture alive and two, it opens different neuropathways in young brains that help people throughout their lives in unrelated ways. I don’t see any reason against it!!
I'm a lowlander Scot and have always been fascinated by the Gaelic language my fellow Scots to the north speak. I've already started learning the basics and hope one day to speak it fluently. What a stunning language it is and i'm glad the Scottish Government are doing everything to promote and preserve it. This is the language our school children should be learning at school !
larrydelamb From my limited knowledge you're taking about speaking the language or something, perhaps "I'm speaking it now, aren't I?" And croi looks like coeur so I'm gonna guess heart . What did you say? I'm sure it's insightful. I just can't read it. Is it Scottish Gaelic or Irish?
Hi Owen. That was Irish.English translation of what i said would be "They are not.(dying out). We are speaking it now are we not? What do you think my friend? A country without a language is a country without a heart."
As a lowland Scot who is proud of his history and heritage i am making a promise to myself now to begin to learn the beautiful and ancient language of Scotland.
Yup - I'm an Irish Gaelic speaker; and can confirm the Scots Gaelic of the Western Isles has a huge Norse element; also present in Manx Gaelic on Isle of Man. Funny thing about modern extant dialects (as opposed to extinct) in both Ireland and Scotland is they were originally more remote ones which were further apart from mainstream. Now mainstream ones are extinct - a bit analogous to islandisation in biology!
Manx is enjoying a modest revival - not a true comeback; but enthusiasts keep the flame flickering. Irish enthusiasts some one hundred years ago on other hand had big ambitions - still hanging on nowadays but a failure if measured by those grandiose aims
that believe it or not is a double-edged sword for the health of the language - it's part of the founding ideology of the state (irish nationalism), thus a kind of top-down inertia has taken hold. It's like we've solved that problem haven't we? look at all we do! The individual or bottom-up side of things is discouraged somehow (sure that problem's solved). What I'm trying to say is people view Irish as fossilised element of the national spirit; something to be lauded and cherished, but not practised with any vigour.
To all those saying that this sounds like Hebrew, it really doesn't, as I speak Hebrew as a second language, and I hear absolutely no similarities. This sounds a lot like Norwegian and Dutch.
To all those saying that this sounds like Dutch, it really doesn't, as I speak Dutch as my first language, and I hear absolutely no similarities. This sounds a lot like Norwegian and Hebrew
me too man It is really sad that english is everywhere. It can help in comunication, like now (I dont know your language so I type in english). But it is really sad when I see people forgeting their own language and speaking just english, like it is happening in the highlands of scotland nowadays. Feasgar Math
pepa nao quero The initial decline of the Gaelic speakers was not due to the language being forgotten but rather a forceful effort by English rulers to eradicate it.
Even though I don't speak Gaelic myself I have been studying the languages and I agree that it is part of who you are. Different languages should be kept alive in all parts of the world, that's one thing that makes us unique.
When I was a child, my grandmother and great aunties would break out in this ancient dialect at various times. I didn't know what they were talking about! Beautiful to hear it.
Sorry to spoil the fun... But it sounds Celtic... that's all... It's a beautiful language and I hope that there's a great revival of it in Scotland. I'm not saying that people should stop speaking English, but people should be proficient in both. I don't speak Scottish Gaelic, nor any Celtic language. I'm from Brazil and have lived in the USA for most of my life. I speak seven languages and maybe someday would love to learn a Celtic one. Best of luck in your future endeavours Scots! And give your national identity a chance.
It's amazing I thought England Scotland Ireland and Wales all spoke English as their first language. I didn't know that Scotland, Ireland and Wales had their own language so England was the only English speaking country back in the old days?
+Harry Burgess I thought Manx came close to becoming a dead language at only 100 speakers before the gov decided to revive it. Cornish however died with its last speaker like in the 80s but even with limited documentation they are making efforts to revive it.
+Harry Burgess CELTIC LANGUAGES: Welsh...761.000 speakers (in Wales) Irish... 380.000 speakers(1,6 millions as first language) Breton...206.000 speakers (in Brittany) Scottish... 61.000 speakers (in Scotland) Cornish...557 speakers (in Cornwall) Manx...50 speakers
About 1.5 million can speak scots throughout Northern Ireland and the lowlands of Scotland. Seems a bit controversial, reading about it now. Some disagreement as to whether it's a language at all or a dialect.
"Scottish isn't related to English. English is descended from Germanic languages, while Scottish is a Celtic language." Youa re confused because there are two indiginous (for want of a better word) languages in Scotland. Lowland Scots or Scots for short is closely related to English - whilst Scottish Gaelic or Gaelic for short is closely related to Irish Gaelic. Prior to the arrival of these languages the population of Scotland mostly spoke P-celtic langauges similar to Old Welsh.
With regard to Gaelic however, there isn't a shred of evidence, that it 'arrived' from anywhere! Indeed, recent scholarship over the last few decades, has shown that Gaelic, (and Gaelic place names!), are as 'native' to Argyll & Western Scotland, as Pictish, (and Pictish place names), are to the East... The myth of Gaelic as 'Erse' grew out of 'Anti-Gaelic', (and Anti-Irish!) propaganda, commonly propounded from the 17th century onwards, that tried to class Gaelic as somehow 'Un-Scottish', and foreign.... That propaganda was pretty successful, and remains in the National psyche, it seems.
As to the history thing that is unprovable either way. The Dalriadan Gaels own tradition has them arriving from Ireland in 500AD. So that wasn't forced on them by anyone. Scottish historians agree that Fergus almost certainly shifted his power base within a pan-Gaelic area rather than it being a mass movement of people. However no-one knows if the Epidii (who inhabited that wee corner of Scotland in Roman times) were Gaels or not. As to Erse being a 17thC usage it dates way before that. At least to the mid-15thC (ie Dunbar) and I suspect way longer before. What people called each other 600 years ago and before is interesting but not really that relevant to today
allan connochie yes yes ALMOST certainly, well at least that was how it was when I was there back around 495AD. Oh wait, I have to tell you I studied something in some college and got a degree and so I know I what I am saying about something 1500 years ago like I was there. Sounds like cow dung or as we call it shit. Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.
allan connochie You're not exactly au fait with either history nor archaeology, are you?? What some of us base our claims on is, a quaint wee thing called EVIDENCE.....and there is NONE of it, i.e. 'not a shred' of evidence for the "Irish Invasion" pile of shite! See, we KNOW the Romans came to Britain, not just because they wrote about it prolifically, but because they LEFT EVIDENCE EVERYWHERE, of their time here......But Fergus Mor??? NOT A SINGLE find ANYWHERE in Argyll backs up that myth, and archaeologists have been looking hard for some, since the 1970s....EVERYTHING they've 'unearthed', has instead completely debunked that fairy tale! Some education for you: "The Gaels of Dál Riata and Ireland lived in different types of house; they wore different styles of brooch and dress pin; they carved different stone monuments. The archaeological evidence does not support the origin tales. It is now thought that the Gaels of Argyll, the Dál Riatans, were a native population who shared a common language with the peoples of Ireland a few miles over the sea. The Gaels of Dál Riata were probably the descendants of the Bronze Age cairn builders of Kilmartin Glen." www.educationscotland.gov.uk/scotlandshistory/britonsgaelsvikings/dalriata/index.asp
***** If you read what I said I was not claiming there was an invasion.In fact I said that Scottish historians agree that there was not a mass movement of people. That does not mean that the Epidii definitely spoke Gaelic though! If we don't know then we don't know. There can be cultural shifts and language shifts without mass movments of people. ie neaer the end of the millenium the Pictish language itself disappeared and many ended up speaking Gaelic. Similar changes may have happened in Argyll in the first half of the millenium. We don't know
Have been learning Scots Gaelic... hard to do in the states as there aren't many people to speak it to for practice... more like talking to myself.. But I love learning it...
It is amazing that Scots Gaelic has a revival in this years. Even pupils whose parents have never spoken that language are learning it. When I caught a glimpse to its grammar, I refrained, as this grammar is VERY difficult.
I am 16 and I am becoming fluent in gaelic (Neither of my parents know any gaelic), It really isn't too hard. I found it far easier to learn than other languages! Give it a try, What could go wrong? We need to keep gaelic alive :)
Brilliant, that's a healthy dose of knowledge you have on the topic, thanks for sharing! I'm an aspiring recording engineer/producer, and my interest in Gaelic music is pushing me to try and learn some of the language (almost from scratch). My father is a native speaker, but sadly almost none has been passed on to me, apart from some basic greetings and the occasional disgruntled mutter about the weather!
" Irish is pretty similar to Irish Gaelic. Scots is basically just a dialect of English (specifically, a dialect of Middle-English)." Don't understand the first bit. Surely Irish and Irish Gaelic is one and the same thing. Scots shares a similar relationship to English as Scottish Gaelic does to Irish Gaelic. It is a seperate distinct language with its own wide range of dialects.
You are so wrong it is funny. English is a west germanic language. Scottisch is a Keltic language. So.... Scottisch is not a dialect of english.. they are two totally seperate languages.
@TheOneToxic You are correct that School children should be learning a language with a large number of speakers but in terms of Scotland, i think our kids should be learning Scottish Gaelic to preserve a very important part of our culture and history which to you may seem pointless but to a lot of people in Scotland is actually something they are extremely proud of and determined to promote and preserve!
Massive similarities between Scots Gaelic and Irish, particularly Irish spoken in the north west. I can understand most of this, bar the occasional difference in word or pronunciation.
*It* *sounds* *like* (Scottish) *GAELIC* (/galɪk/) *people*! Open your ears and listen closely, that's what (Scottish) Gaelic (/galɪk/) sounds like. It sounds as much like the languages you've all mentioned as they do to each other. The only other language it really sounds like is Irish (Gaelic (/gelɪk/)).
The Ingles were actually a Germanic tribe which migrated to the British Isle after the fall of the Roman Empire. That's why willkommen and danke both German words sound very similar to welcome and thank you used today. Along with the native tongue of the Briton and Latin such as "mi scusi" which means excuse me in Italian. Make up the current language spoken in England. You have to understand due to colonization and enslavement during the Roman times came the mixture of words. The slave always simulates the master.
@@canislupid2466 can’t believe someone has responded to this after 2 years! I worked in broadcast media for a few years and there can’t be a mouse cursor on a television feed because it’s not computer based so I suspect this was streamed on someone’s laptop and then filmed on their phone.
My comment is purely on the weather report as I know nothing about Celtic culture. Anyhow, a Scottish weather report in any language needs only six words. "It's going to be fu(/
Well said Tara Kelly!!! I heard of some people from the Gaeltacht areas of Ballyvourney/Ballymakeera visiting I think it was the outer Hebrides, and but for some differences, having great chin wags with the locals there AS GAEILGE!!!
Tha mise air a bhith nam neach-ionnsachaidh fad 3-4 bliadhnaichean a-nis. Chaidh agam ris a' mhòr-chuid dhen bhideo seo a leantainn 👍🏻 'S e Sarah Cruickshank an t-ainm a th' air a' bhoireannach, mas math mo chuimhne.
Haha!! I'm inclined to agree with you a chara. It gets pretty annoying after awhile, and a lot of the languages quoted with respects to people, are VERY different. I mean, what a lot of people don't know, is that 'supposedly' Irish / Scottish (Gaelic) is OLDER THAN LATIN, and that its closest cousin is Latin's precursor - Italic!! That's OLD. Now Italic is 'supposedly' an Indo-European language. And when I hear my Afrikaans-speaking Indian partner telling me that it sounds closest to the Arabic that *she* has heard Muslims speaking in her homeland (Durban), I'm starting to put 1+1 together. So maybe those people above who are saying that it 'sounds Arabic' may have something - in the phonetics at least. But all this about it sounding like 'German' and 'Lithuanian' and God-knows what else just sounds daft, to me anyway. Sláinte!
@@Sionnach1601 "what a lot of people don't know, is that 'supposedly' Irish / Scottish (Gaelic) is OLDER THAN LATIN" Sorry, I have to disagree. You cannot call any modern language older than another language, because languages continually develop and change. Modern Gaelic is not the same as Gaelic was many centuries ago; they might both be Gaelic, but they are not the same language. There might be factors that can slow down the change of language (like old Arabic from the Quran influencing modern Arabic languages and keeping them more similar), but when languages are in use, they are prone to some kind of change. This is even true for ancient languages in more recent use; medieval Latin for example received a huge amount of new vocabulary for things that had been forgotten, hadn't existed up till then or had never been known under a specific word. The same is true for modern Hebrew; a revived language that required "new inventions" te be used in modern speech; not to forget that it's changing right now together with Israeli society.
The English language was formed in Anglo-Saxon towns that are now the South of Scotland and North of England. English has been a Scottish language as long as it has been Englands also.
As a nationalist Scot, I'm having a go at the British Scots who replace their culture with the fucking Queen, a useless bitch who has done nothing to our society
DUFC321 Why care so much about the Queen? She does her job. She's a large part of tourism for England and they pay their way. Essentially she's head of tourism. I see no reason to even consider her in a discussion in terms of UK politics.
Anton Gustavsson Because we've been a proud part of the UK for hundreds of years - and a big part of their military and industrial dominance - and the alternative is to have union with Brussels. And may I just say, Fuck the EU.
+Katerina P That's because Scottish Gaelic is Goidelic. Goidelic comes from Ireland. The Original Picts (of nowadays Scotland) died out and Scottish Celts came from Ireland and took over most of the area.
+Rex Brandsma No, western Scotland was Goidelic speaking just like Ireland, it formed a Kingdom called Dalriada. It was no Irish invasion. The main kingdom of Alba (or as the Romans called them, Picts - P Celtic speaking Britons, unconquered by Rome), centred in the east between Fife and Moray, got hegemony over the whole of Scotland, conquering Dalriada, however, the nobility was Christianised from Iona and learnt Gaelic, it became the prestige language and then the national language - making Scotland called Scotland. Picts did not "die out" modern Scottish people are descendants of Picts.
@Jadervason That's why i am happy with the SNP Scottish Government. They are proud of our heritage and promoting and keeping it alive. I hardly think the Conservative government in Westminster cares all that much about Scottish Gaelic or even Scotland for that matter.
Mhill sé sin mo cheann tá sé chomh cosúil le Gaeilge gur thuig mé cuid maith de ach níl siad cosúil lena chéile go leor go raibh mé in ann insint gur teanga difriúil a bhí inti...ach thuig mé gan aon eolas agam ar an dteanga...m'inchinn bocht! D:
I don't know about Icelandic, but a Netherlands accent might make more sense. And it is said that Danish sounds more like a Germanic language than a Scandinavian one :)
I agree. They're both beautiful languages, I'm a starter learner myself, but learning it at my age (17) is more difficult than if I had learned it in Secondary, if not Primary school.
I remember watching this like 10 years ago thinking I wish I could understand. 5 months of dulolingo TH-cam and Spotify podcasts in the car and I’m now watching this and understanding what she is saying even though I don’t catch every word
Extremely! I never would have guessed it!! I had heard of some people from Ballyvourney (West Cork for those who don't know) travelling to some of the Western isles of Scotland, and for the most part, having GRAND aul chats with the people there!!! I myself had recently seen some Scot's Gaelic in print, and could actually understand quite a bit of it. Then I actually hear an mbean seo ag caint as Gaeilge na hAlban and I couldn't BELIEVE how similar it is! What a wonderful experience!! It must be much the same experience for a Norwegian to hear Icelandic or Faroese, maybe to a lesser degree albeit. So COOL though!
The gutteral sound I think you're referring to, /x/ appears in a very large proportion of languages though- Spanish (not all dialects though), Russian, most slavic languages, German, Dutch, gaelic, welsh, Irish, Arabic, Hebrew, a few dialects of French. English is almost odd for lacking it (and it does appear in some English dialects and did used to be part of English in the middle ages anyway).
My root to the word wane(wean) comes from my old primary school master, whom we called "toasty" Mc Bride. He was a great man. He actually wrote Donegals "national anthem, "the homes of Donegal". He was also a native speaker. My maternal grandda was Willie Gillespie, who was best known for writing "Johnstons motor car".When I´m on the subject, I might add that my mothers cousin Hughie Gillespie was in his time a brilliant fiddle player. He had his own radio show in NewYork, ethnic folk music.
@ojideagu I was refering to Mondern High German. Nor familiar with scots all that much.. But almost all current languges come from a much earlier Germanic languge. I believe that Gaelic is spoken in the region of Caithness up into Thurso. Am I correct in this? Where is "Scots" for widley spoken?
Is Seapánach mé agus tá mé ag foghlaim Gaeilge abhaile. Is leabhar a bhí Seapánach scríobh mo mhúinteoir anois. Níl mé in ann tuiscint an bhean seo ach amháin cuplá focla, "uisge", "agus", "didomhnaich" (it's probably for Dé Domhnaigh in Conamara dialect that I learn) mar shampla...tá mé sad go leor (I don't know "sad" in Irish yet). ...But, it makes me want more and more to learn Irish ! Go raibh míle maith 'ad, Sarah ! (By the way, Irish guys get what I said in Irish ? If so, how happy ! :D )
I was always told Scots Gaelic is most like Donegal/Ulster Irish, of all the Irish dialects...but she sounds way more like Connemara Irish in the west of Ireland the way she says “anocht” (tonight) and “Sathairn” (Saturday). That’s pretty cool. The Scots/Irish connection must be greater than just the bits of the two countries that are closest to each other.
@Shantanu Khandkar: 'Gaelic' or 'Goidelic' is a language group. Irish (sometimes called Irish Gaelic) and Scottish Gaelic (generally shortened to Gaelic) are distinct but closely related languages. The other Goidelic language is Manx. They are closely related, having only diverged sometime in the late Middle Ages. Most scholars call that language "Middle Irish" though some prefer "Middle Gaelic". The former is used because the language was confined to Ireland for a long time before spreading to Scotland and Mann where it diverged into Scottish Gaelic and Manx. Some don't like it though as they believe it implies Scottish Gaelic is not Scottish. Indeed 'Scots' speaking Lowlanders referred to the language of the highlands (Gaelic) as "Erse" (meaning Irish) in an attempt to make it seem foreign. This is somewhat ironic. Previously "Scottis" referred to the Gaelic language of Scotland, and "Scot" itself originates from a Latin term meaning "Gael". When the English dialects of the Lowlands gained privileged position in the Scottish court they started to refer to their own dialects as "Scots" while trying to make Gaelic seem foreign - but from a etymological point of view they were calling their language "Gaelic". Kind of funny.
Sounds just like all the other lenguages I don't understand. I live in Italy and to me it is incredible the large amount of dialects around here, towns distant 30 miles use considerable different dialects.
The Gaelic spoken on the weather forecast sounds so similar to the Irish variety, despite being the Scottish variety. It appears the two Gaelics are as similar to each other as Bulgarian and Russian are.
they are very similar and are essentially the same language Scots Gaelic has some differences in spelling and a small amount of different vocab the pronunciation is very close to the Irish spoken in Co. Donegal but starkly different to the dialects further south I agree with you that Irish should never be referred to as Gaelic but it shouldn't be referred Irish Gaelic either It's just called Irish but I call it Scots Gaelic to avoid confusion
Ronan Kelly Many people outside of Ireland refer to 'Irish Gaelic' to differentiate from Scottish Gaelic and Manx, the only three Goidelic languages. In Scotland, Scottish Gaelic is usually referred to simply as Gaelic as well.
@Dovenpeis Myself and i do believe i'm speaking for the majority of Scots welcome anyone on earth that chooses to come and settle and build a life for themselves in our country. As long as those people contribute to our society and all work together to make Scotland a better and more prosperous place to live then i have no problem whatsoever with immigration to Scotland. It's not about where you come from, it's about where we go as a country together as one.
That could well be true in some instances, but it's definitely worth bearing in mind that there's actually a big array of variation in dialect, accent, pronunciation and even vocabulary across the Scottish Gaelic-speaking areas (mainly due to the isolation of the communities and the varying degrees of Norse influence). I imagine there's a similar situation in Irish Gaelic. So it's likely that within each of the Gaelic languages, some dialects are easier than others to learn and understand!
I wish I could get the weather like that here in Australia.. I was born and raised in Skye until age 8. English is technically my second language .. though sadly now days its my first... I do miss Home.. as Skye and Scotland ever shall be and the Gaelic channels here in Oz.
Thanks for the reply, and I agree. Sadly, I'm not a SNP supporter. I'm from a soldiering family, and therefore I've seen the other parts of Britain and beyond and have a different opinion on things. That and I live in England, and if it did pass, it'd make me a foreigner. And it's the Scottish government that chooses what goes on in Scottish schools, not the actual British government. And if you're on about the School board, they're Welsh. Scottish schools are different from English. I know.
they're written by linguists. and if you're so skeptic you can look up several works on this topic (etymological dictionary of scottish-gaelic by macbain (it's online), a gaelic thesaurus by macaoidh, scottish gaelic by lamb etc.)
Irish is my first language and it's amazing how similar the two languages are, I understood nearly ever single word
Because it is related and belongs to the same family...
Because it is related and belongs to the same family...
Gille87 REALLY? Wow I didn't know that
Claire Oz. Atlantic
Now you know :D
Claire McHale its like norse and swedish are close together.
Translation: 'It'll rain tomorrow, Wednesday, and as you can see, it will be raining the rest of the week.'
Lol yup
Universal Scotland init
tha e fliuch an-diugh
Its true
Thought that was standard
As an American, I'm used to hearing Scottish accents portrayed by eccentric comedic characters on TV or in movies. But hearing the language it actually comes from brings it a lot of dignity and beauty. It really is a lovely language.
As someone who has lived in Scotland my whole life, I've never been taught so much as a single word of this language
And that's the problem
That's sad. I am of Scottish descent on my mom's side and it would be great if the learning of Scots Gaelic was mandatory. I think all Scots should know some of the language.
In my opinion, Scottish culture is dying a slow and painful death. We have almost nothing unique in our culture whatsoever, it's terrible.
It's not all bad. There are many Gaidhlig primary schools around Scotland where you do everything in Gaidhlig to learn the Gaidhlig. I am now fluent in Gaidhlig because I went to one.
I know how you feel. My family is directly Scottish. My grandparents first language was Gaelic but the Canadian schools through the church stamped out the language in favour of English. I hardly know any Gaelic at all.
Eta: I'm from Cape Breton in canada
This makes me so happy considering the English used to beat Scots for speaking the language of their homeland. I hope that Gaelic gets the full revival it deserves
Well maybe then the Irish will beat up the Scots for speaking the language of their homeland xp
R. V. B. Gaelic speakers migrated before either were modern day countries.
How full would THAT be? The majority of the Scots people haven't spoken Gaelic for at least eight hundred years. You might as well expect English people to speak like Chaucer.
@@DieFlabbergast what where’d you get 800 years from?
@@DieFlabbergast I’m Scottish myself and although not fluent in Gàidhlig it’s not been 800 years since most of this country last spoke Gàidhlig.
I kinda want the SNP to bring Gaelic into schools, in the sense that they teach it like they would with French and German, but as mandatory for S1-4 to learn. Meaning that they'd learn English as they would normally do, but they'd also learn Gaelic along side it, but at the same level as French or German or Spanish for example, and focus their time on Gaelic.
Tbf Gaelic hasn't been spoken in the lowlands for hundreds and hundreds of years so culturally speaking it wouldn't make much sense to introduce it there. Scots however is underrated and at a certain level counts as a different level. I would suggest they teach that instead in the lowlands, and Gaelic in the highlands
1955teddrake I agree to that. Scots in the central belt, Western Shores, Orkney and Shetland; with Gaelic in the Hebrides and Highlands.
I think learning it as a child in school is a great idea, even if Gaelic isn’t widely spoken in some areas. One, it will keep the culture alive and two, it opens different neuropathways in young brains that help people throughout their lives in unrelated ways. I don’t see any reason against it!!
@@sicgc7658 I'm from dundee and would love to speak scots gaelic, no matter where you are from if you want, learn scots gaelic!
I do really want to learn Scots Gaelic, in fact i am learning it right now on duolingo!
I'm a lowlander Scot and have always been fascinated by the Gaelic language my fellow Scots to the north speak. I've already started learning the basics and hope one day to speak it fluently. What a stunning language it is and i'm glad the Scottish Government are doing everything to promote and preserve it. This is the language our school children should be learning at school !
Did you ever get fluent?
I am a native Bosnian speaker and also speak German and English.
I am absolutely in love with Irish and Scottish Gaelic language.
It's a shame these other languages are dying out even though we English are no longer deliberately trying to remove them
+mattdobz The damage seems to have been done. Not many people want to learn it nowadays. It's a shame.
+mattdobz Doesn't matter if you no longer deliberately try to remove them, you fucked us over good and proper.
+mattdobz Niall siad . Tá muid ag caint é anois nach bhfuil muid? Cad a cheapan tú a chara. Tír gan teanga. Tír gan croí.
larrydelamb From my limited knowledge you're taking about speaking the language or something, perhaps "I'm speaking it now, aren't I?" And croi looks like coeur so I'm gonna guess heart .
What did you say? I'm sure it's insightful. I just can't read it. Is it Scottish Gaelic or Irish?
Hi Owen. That was Irish.English translation of what i said would be "They are not.(dying out). We are speaking it now are we not? What do you think my friend? A country without a language is a country without a heart."
As an Irishman, I can't get over how similar the languages are. Scots and the Irish are true cousins!
As a lowland Scot who is proud of his history and heritage i am making a promise to myself now to begin to learn the beautiful and ancient language of Scotland.
DUOLINGO, I CHOOSE YOU!!!!!!!!
This is the most beautiful weather report I've ever heard.
As for me, i am russian, in that Scots Gaelic we can see a lot of elements from Norwegian. Especially in sounds. In any way, i can hear it.
I am from Slovakia and in my option it sounds like Hungarian.
Peter Iglár +
Yup - I'm an Irish Gaelic speaker; and can confirm the Scots Gaelic of the Western Isles has a huge Norse element; also present in Manx Gaelic on Isle of Man. Funny thing about modern extant dialects (as opposed to extinct) in both Ireland and Scotland is they were originally more remote ones which were further apart from mainstream. Now mainstream ones are extinct - a bit analogous to islandisation in biology!
Manx is enjoying a modest revival - not a true comeback; but enthusiasts keep the flame flickering. Irish enthusiasts some one hundred years ago on other hand had big ambitions - still hanging on nowadays but a failure if measured by those grandiose aims
that believe it or not is a double-edged sword for the health of the language - it's part of the founding ideology of the state (irish nationalism), thus a kind of top-down inertia has taken hold. It's like we've solved that problem haven't we? look at all we do! The individual or bottom-up side of things is discouraged somehow (sure that problem's solved). What I'm trying to say is people view Irish as fossilised element of the national spirit; something to be lauded and cherished, but not practised with any vigour.
Translation: It's going to rain, of course.
Hahaha!!! Wouldn't you just know it in THIS part of the world!
Gaelic is so beautiful and so distinctly unique when compared to the Latin, Slavic, and Germanic languages of Europe. I absolutely adore it.
To all those saying that this sounds like Hebrew, it really doesn't, as I speak Hebrew as a second language, and I hear absolutely no similarities. This sounds a lot like Norwegian and Dutch.
Huh. I speak Hebrew too, and it sounds nothing like it to me either! I think it's the "chet" sound, as in "poteach" (opens).
I speak Hebrew as well. To me Scottish just sounds like the Celtic language it is. It's very interesting to listen to.
I'm norweigan and this sounds more like Icelandic or Old Norse
To all those saying that this sounds like Dutch, it really doesn't, as I speak Dutch as my first language, and I hear absolutely no similarities. This sounds a lot like Norwegian and Hebrew
JCGver Not Hebrew. Hebrew is far different than Gaelic.
Excellent Scottish... Love different ethnic cultures and languages..I hate dominance of a single culture or language...
me too man
It is really sad that english is everywhere. It can help in comunication, like now (I dont know your language so I type in english). But it is really sad when I see people forgeting their own language and speaking just english, like it is happening in the highlands of scotland nowadays.
Feasgar Math
pepa nao quero The initial decline of the Gaelic speakers was not due to the language being forgotten but rather a forceful effort by English rulers to eradicate it.
I see... really sad :(
you are right..... I hope someday Scotland will be free again
Is fuath liom é,ta suil agam go bhfuil rudaí níos fearr a fháil.
Even though I don't speak Gaelic myself I have been studying the languages and I agree that it is part of who you are. Different languages should be kept alive in all parts of the world, that's one thing that makes us unique.
I'm three years old and only speak Belarusian and I can understand 94.957% of what she's saying.
you are 3 years old? What?
That's nothing. I'm 103 and I don't speak any languages and never have.
Frazzle Face woah... but the way you’re speaking.... it’s almost like, English!?
Poppetcutie5567 r/wooosh
When I was a child, my grandmother and great aunties would break out in this ancient
dialect at various times. I didn't know what they were talking about! Beautiful to hear it.
That was awesome. I like hearing unfamiliar languages in modern situations. Imagine, had things gone differently, we'd be speaking that right now.
When I went to North wakes last year the majority of people spoke Welsh, I thought it would be the same with Scotland but apparently not
You'd have to go to the Outer Hebrides to have a realistic chance of meeting people who speak it. Verrrry small pockets of the country.
Scottish gaelic is a beautyful Language!
The Cletic tongues rings so wonderfully ,so spellbidingly ! They must be kept alive forever !
Sorry to spoil the fun... But it sounds Celtic... that's all... It's a beautiful language and I hope that there's a great revival of it in Scotland. I'm not saying that people should stop speaking English, but people should be proficient in both. I don't speak Scottish Gaelic, nor any Celtic language. I'm from Brazil and have lived in the USA for most of my life. I speak seven languages and maybe someday would love to learn a Celtic one. Best of luck in your future endeavours Scots! And give your national identity a chance.
Im gonna fucking learn this language!! Im partly scottish and i want this language to live on!!! LIKE IF UR UP TO THE CHALLENGE!! CMON GUYS
good luck! very hard language but at least you're part scottish, I don't want any of that "scottish in my soul" bullshit
No escape from the Phandom, ANYWHERE
ClubJedwardFan ;)
Good luck! Hope it goes well for you. It's shouldn't be horrifically hard for you to learn the pronunciation isn't to bad.
I use mango languages. great app. paired with the BBC learning our language series. you can learn in no time with some good effort.
I speak Irish and can understand about 60 percent of this ! :O
It should be like in Scadinavia where people are both fluent in their native languages and English !!!
I love summer in scotland, favourite day of the year
she really speaks it well
It's amazing I thought England Scotland Ireland and Wales all spoke English as their first language. I didn't know that Scotland, Ireland and Wales had their own language so England was the only English speaking country back in the old days?
+Harry Burgess I thought Manx came close to becoming a dead language at only 100 speakers before the gov decided to revive it. Cornish however died with its last speaker like in the 80s but even with limited documentation they are making efforts to revive it.
+Harry Burgess
CELTIC LANGUAGES:
Welsh...761.000 speakers (in Wales)
Irish... 380.000 speakers(1,6 millions as first language) Breton...206.000 speakers (in Brittany)
Scottish... 61.000 speakers (in Scotland)
Cornish...557 speakers (in Cornwall)
Manx...50 speakers
About 1.5 million can speak scots throughout Northern Ireland and the lowlands of Scotland. Seems a bit controversial, reading about it now. Some disagreement as to whether it's a language at all or a dialect.
tyler hill Ulster Scot is a real Germanic language,not a dialect.
+moesha pempengco Who needs English anyways. I'm never going to England!
"Scottish isn't related to English. English is descended from Germanic languages, while Scottish is a Celtic language." Youa re confused because there are two indiginous (for want of a better word) languages in Scotland. Lowland Scots or Scots for short is closely related to English - whilst Scottish Gaelic or Gaelic for short is closely related to Irish Gaelic. Prior to the arrival of these languages the population of Scotland mostly spoke P-celtic langauges similar to Old Welsh.
With regard to Gaelic however, there isn't a shred of evidence, that it 'arrived' from anywhere! Indeed, recent scholarship over the last few decades, has shown that Gaelic, (and Gaelic place names!), are as 'native' to Argyll & Western Scotland, as Pictish, (and Pictish place names), are to the East...
The myth of Gaelic as 'Erse' grew out of 'Anti-Gaelic', (and Anti-Irish!) propaganda, commonly propounded from the 17th century onwards, that tried to class Gaelic as somehow 'Un-Scottish', and foreign....
That propaganda was pretty successful, and remains in the National psyche, it seems.
As to the history thing that is unprovable either way. The Dalriadan Gaels own tradition has them arriving from Ireland in 500AD. So that wasn't forced on them by anyone. Scottish historians agree that Fergus almost certainly shifted his power base within a pan-Gaelic area rather than it being a mass movement of people. However no-one knows if the Epidii (who inhabited that wee corner of Scotland in Roman times) were Gaels or not. As to Erse being a 17thC usage it dates way before that. At least to the mid-15thC (ie Dunbar) and I suspect way longer before. What people called each other 600 years ago and before is interesting but not really that relevant to today
allan connochie yes yes ALMOST certainly, well at least that was how it was when I was there back around 495AD. Oh wait, I have to tell you I studied something in some college and got a degree and so I know I what I am saying about something 1500 years ago like I was there. Sounds like cow dung or as we call it shit. Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.
allan connochie
You're not exactly au fait with either history nor archaeology, are you?? What some of us base our claims on is, a quaint wee thing called EVIDENCE.....and there is NONE of it, i.e. 'not a shred' of evidence for the "Irish Invasion" pile of shite!
See, we KNOW the Romans came to Britain, not just because they wrote about it prolifically, but because they LEFT EVIDENCE EVERYWHERE, of their time here......But Fergus Mor??? NOT A SINGLE find ANYWHERE in Argyll backs up that myth, and archaeologists have been looking hard for some, since the 1970s....EVERYTHING they've 'unearthed', has instead completely debunked that fairy tale!
Some education for you:
"The Gaels of Dál Riata and Ireland lived in different types of house; they wore different styles of brooch and dress pin; they carved different stone monuments. The archaeological evidence does not support the origin tales. It is now thought that the Gaels of Argyll, the Dál Riatans, were a native population who shared a common language with the peoples of Ireland a few miles over the sea. The Gaels of Dál Riata were probably the descendants of the Bronze Age cairn builders of Kilmartin Glen."
www.educationscotland.gov.uk/scotlandshistory/britonsgaelsvikings/dalriata/index.asp
***** If you read what I said I was not claiming there was an invasion.In fact I said that Scottish historians agree that there was not a mass movement of people. That does not mean that the Epidii definitely spoke Gaelic though! If we don't know then we don't know. There can be cultural shifts and language shifts without mass movments of people. ie neaer the end of the millenium the Pictish language itself disappeared and many ended up speaking Gaelic. Similar changes may have happened in Argyll in the first half of the millenium. We don't know
Love it! :-) Keep the native language alive, please!
Have been learning Scots Gaelic... hard to do in the states as there aren't many people to speak it to for practice... more like talking to myself.. But I love learning it...
I clicked the CC hoping for an English translation And Then All Hell Broke Loose!
Funniest thing ever 😂
It is amazing that Scots Gaelic has a revival in this years. Even pupils whose parents have never spoken that language are learning it. When I caught a glimpse to its grammar, I refrained, as this grammar is VERY difficult.
I am 16 and I am becoming fluent in gaelic (Neither of my parents know any gaelic), It really isn't too hard. I found it far easier to learn than other languages! Give it a try, What could go wrong? We need to keep gaelic alive :)
Ellie Todd
I am learning Low German. It is not so hard either as I am also fluent in English.
+Andrew Bustard my kids are learning it in Greenock - the epitome of central Scotland lol = Glasgow is in the process of building another school
typical ignorant response
how informed are you on the subject...not very by the look of things = ignorant
I can understand half of what she's saying just from knowing irish
i LOVE THE OUTRO MUSIC. pinch of bagpipes thrown in :-D!
Very beautiful to listen to Scotland should be proud and keep what is native to whom you are .
Brilliant, that's a healthy dose of knowledge you have on the topic, thanks for sharing!
I'm an aspiring recording engineer/producer, and my interest in Gaelic music is pushing me to try and learn some of the language (almost from scratch). My father is a native speaker, but sadly almost none has been passed on to me, apart from some basic greetings and the occasional disgruntled mutter about the weather!
" Irish is pretty similar to Irish Gaelic. Scots is basically just a dialect of English (specifically, a dialect of Middle-English)." Don't understand the first bit. Surely Irish and Irish Gaelic is one and the same thing. Scots shares a similar relationship to English as Scottish Gaelic does to Irish Gaelic. It is a seperate distinct language with its own wide range of dialects.
Irish is Irish Gaelic. Don't listen to anyone who tells you otherwise.
Peter O'Donoghue Damn straight.
Irish and irish Gaelic are same language you must mean Scottish gaelic
You are so wrong it is funny. English is a west germanic language. Scottisch is a Keltic language. So.... Scottisch is not a dialect of english.. they are two totally seperate languages.
I was always wondering why they need weather forecast in Scotland, what's the weather like tomorrow? Eh rainy and windy...
Because it's not like that every day.
But how much rain and wind... that’s the question.
for some reason I prefer the sound of Scottish Gaelic as opposed to Irish
I think it might just be the fact that a soft spoken female is speaking it.
I think all Scottish people should know Scottish. It's great language.
@TheOneToxic You are correct that School children should be learning a language with a large number of speakers but in terms of Scotland, i think our kids should be learning Scottish Gaelic to preserve a very important part of our culture and history which to you may seem pointless but to a lot of people in Scotland is actually something they are extremely proud of and determined to promote and preserve!
Massive similarities between Scots Gaelic and Irish, particularly Irish spoken in the north west. I can understand most of this, bar the occasional difference in word or pronunciation.
Probs because Scottish Gaelic evolved from old Irish
*It* *sounds* *like* (Scottish) *GAELIC* (/galɪk/) *people*! Open your ears and listen closely, that's what (Scottish) Gaelic (/galɪk/) sounds like. It sounds as much like the languages you've all mentioned as they do to each other. The only other language it really sounds like is Irish (Gaelic (/gelɪk/)).
Dar liomsa, is í cosúil le Gaeilge. Thuig mé cúpla focail.
BHPproductions1 Mé freisin
stuif céanna , oileán éagsúla
Gerald A. Mayo Tá ceart agatsa.
beannachtaí . bogtrotter ?
Bogtrotter?
Your comment totally cracked me up! :D
Hope this helps:
Indo-European -> Celtic -> Scottish Gaelic, Irish, Welsh, Cornish
Indo-European -> Germanic -> English, German, Dutch
Indo-European -> Romance -> Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian
Such a beautiful language
Sounds better than english. Scots should make a greater effort to embrace it
The Ingles were actually a Germanic tribe which migrated to the British Isle after the fall of the Roman Empire. That's why willkommen and danke both German words sound very similar to welcome and thank you used today. Along with the native tongue of the Briton and Latin such as "mi scusi" which means excuse me in Italian. Make up the current language spoken in England. You have to understand due to colonization and enslavement during the Roman times came the mixture of words. The slave always simulates the master.
What kind of ANIMAL records something with their cursor in the DEAD CENTRE of the screen?! 🤷🏼♂️
Think it was whoever was recording the weather forecast at the studio. I find that amusing, especially since someone also recorded this with a camera
@@canislupid2466 can’t believe someone has responded to this after 2 years! I worked in broadcast media for a few years and there can’t be a mouse cursor on a television feed because it’s not computer based so I suspect this was streamed on someone’s laptop and then filmed on their phone.
@@mickmcdonagh Interesting, makes sense though
I adore Scottish Gaelic, and i'm an American. I really would love to be able to learn the language and beable to meet someone who speaks it!
It sounds beautiful. I think the people of Scotland need to speak this more.
My comment is purely on the weather report as I know nothing about Celtic culture. Anyhow, a Scottish weather report in any language needs only six words. "It's going to be fu(/
omg i didn't realise how similar it is to Irish! I could understand most of this lol gaeilge abú
Well said Tara Kelly!!! I heard of some people from the Gaeltacht areas of Ballyvourney/Ballymakeera visiting I think it was the outer Hebrides, and but for some differences, having great chin wags with the locals there AS GAEILGE!!!
It sounds like Dutch. :) But I dont understand it.
Love Scottish.
Tha mise air a bhith nam neach-ionnsachaidh fad 3-4 bliadhnaichean a-nis. Chaidh agam ris a' mhòr-chuid dhen bhideo seo a leantainn 👍🏻 'S e Sarah Cruickshank an t-ainm a th' air a' bhoireannach, mas math mo chuimhne.
most beautiful language in the world!
Whats with all the ''it sounds like [this language]'' no it does not - it sounds like Gaelic. The language you can say it sounds like is Irish.
Haha!! I'm inclined to agree with you a chara. It gets pretty annoying after awhile, and a lot of the languages quoted with respects to people, are VERY different. I mean, what a lot of people don't know, is that 'supposedly' Irish / Scottish (Gaelic) is OLDER THAN LATIN, and that its closest cousin is Latin's precursor - Italic!! That's OLD.
Now Italic is 'supposedly' an Indo-European language. And when I hear my Afrikaans-speaking Indian partner telling me that it sounds closest to the Arabic that *she* has heard Muslims speaking in her homeland (Durban), I'm starting to put 1+1 together. So maybe those people above who are saying that it 'sounds Arabic' may have something - in the phonetics at least.
But all this about it sounding like 'German' and 'Lithuanian' and God-knows what else just sounds daft, to me anyway.
Sláinte!
@@Sionnach1601
"what a lot of people don't know, is that 'supposedly' Irish / Scottish (Gaelic) is OLDER THAN LATIN"
Sorry, I have to disagree. You cannot call any modern language older than another language, because languages continually develop and change. Modern Gaelic is not the same as Gaelic was many centuries ago; they might both be Gaelic, but they are not the same language. There might be factors that can slow down the change of language (like old Arabic from the Quran influencing modern Arabic languages and keeping them more similar), but when languages are in use, they are prone to some kind of change. This is even true for ancient languages in more recent use; medieval Latin for example received a huge amount of new vocabulary for things that had been forgotten, hadn't existed up till then or had never been known under a specific word. The same is true for modern Hebrew; a revived language that required "new inventions" te be used in modern speech; not to forget that it's changing right now together with Israeli society.
why didnt u vote yes to secede from UK and adopt this as ur langauge....? ppl have no love for their countries anymore
The English language was formed in Anglo-Saxon towns that are now the South of Scotland and North of England. English has been a Scottish language as long as it has been Englands also.
DUFC321 Pussiest? I think England are more so since a nation of 5 million can vote on a nation of 55 millions dealings, but not vice versa.
As a nationalist Scot, I'm having a go at the British Scots who replace their culture with the fucking Queen, a useless bitch who has done nothing to our society
DUFC321 Why care so much about the Queen? She does her job. She's a large part of tourism for England and they pay their way. Essentially she's head of tourism. I see no reason to even consider her in a discussion in terms of UK politics.
Anton Gustavsson Because we've been a proud part of the UK for hundreds of years - and a big part of their military and industrial dominance - and the alternative is to have union with Brussels. And may I just say, Fuck the EU.
Very like irish gaeilge i could understand a lot of what she said
+Katerina P
That's because Scottish Gaelic is Goidelic.
Goidelic comes from Ireland. The Original Picts (of nowadays Scotland) died out and Scottish Celts came from Ireland and took over most of the area.
+Rex Brandsma No, western Scotland was Goidelic speaking just like Ireland, it formed a Kingdom called Dalriada. It was no Irish invasion.
The main kingdom of Alba (or as the Romans called them, Picts - P Celtic speaking Britons, unconquered by Rome), centred in the east between Fife and Moray, got hegemony over the whole of Scotland, conquering Dalriada, however, the nobility was Christianised from Iona and learnt Gaelic, it became the prestige language and then the national language - making Scotland called Scotland.
Picts did not "die out" modern Scottish people are descendants of Picts.
Same
xWHITExEAGLEx The Irish brought over the language to Scotland
beautiful language!!! greetings from Spain
@Jadervason That's why i am happy with the SNP Scottish Government. They are proud of our heritage and promoting and keeping it alive. I hardly think the Conservative government in Westminster cares all that much about Scottish Gaelic or even Scotland for that matter.
Mhill sé sin mo cheann tá sé chomh cosúil le Gaeilge gur thuig mé cuid maith de ach níl siad cosúil lena chéile go leor go raibh mé in ann insint gur teanga difriúil a bhí inti...ach thuig mé gan aon eolas agam ar an dteanga...m'inchinn bocht! D:
интересный язык, красивая деваха
I can almost hear some traces of Faroese in this..
It's Faroese that has traces of Gaelic not the other way around
Scott Walker Ahh, forgive my mix up then. I'm just a little more familiar with Faroese than Gaelic oddly xD
I don't know about Icelandic, but a Netherlands accent might make more sense. And it is said that Danish sounds more like a Germanic language than a Scandinavian one :)
I have heard Icelandic, in fact I'm learning it xD And I think this is Scottish Gaelic, not Irish. Icelandic sounds alot more.. nasally to me..
***** Which do you mean? Danish or Faroese? :S
I agree.
They're both beautiful languages, I'm a starter learner myself, but learning it at my age (17) is more difficult than if I had learned it in Secondary, if not Primary school.
I remember watching this like 10 years ago thinking I wish I could understand. 5 months of dulolingo TH-cam and Spotify podcasts in the car and I’m now watching this and understanding what she is saying even though I don’t catch every word
it's very similar to Irish gaelic
Extremely! I never would have guessed it!! I had heard of some people from Ballyvourney (West Cork for those who don't know) travelling to some of the Western isles of Scotland, and for the most part, having GRAND aul chats with the people there!!!
I myself had recently seen some Scot's Gaelic in print, and could actually understand quite a bit of it. Then I actually hear an mbean seo ag caint as Gaeilge na hAlban and I couldn't BELIEVE how similar it is! What a wonderful experience!! It must be much the same experience for a Norwegian to hear Icelandic or Faroese, maybe to a lesser degree albeit.
So COOL though!
Sounds a lot like Dutch
zz44ppppp i'm dutch, and couldn't understand a single word. Dutch is really different
I said sounds like.
zz44ppppp i know, but this language has a lot of sounds we dont have
Ok then. It sounds very different to Dutch.
agree
Saxons go home!
I am home !
Truly an ethereal, ancient toung.
Wow that sounded pretty cool, now if only I learned Scots Gaelic then I would enjoy this even more! I like languages, this is cool!
What a beautiful language! :-)
Is the Gaelic language different in Scotland and Ireland? As far as I've seen, I can see three languages spoken in the area, Irish, Gaelic and Scots.
I'm African-American and one of my dream destinations is Scotland...!
ceud mìle fàilte
The gutteral sound I think you're referring to, /x/ appears in a very large proportion of languages though- Spanish (not all dialects though), Russian, most slavic languages, German, Dutch, gaelic, welsh, Irish, Arabic, Hebrew, a few dialects of French. English is almost odd for lacking it (and it does appear in some English dialects and did used to be part of English in the middle ages anyway).
so beautiful...I'm Arabic but i think i found my new next language to learn ^_^
My root to the word wane(wean) comes from my old primary school master, whom we called "toasty" Mc Bride. He was a great man. He actually wrote Donegals "national anthem, "the homes of Donegal". He was also a native speaker. My maternal grandda was Willie Gillespie, who was best known for writing "Johnstons motor car".When I´m on the subject, I might add that my mothers cousin Hughie Gillespie was in his time a brilliant fiddle player. He had his own radio show in NewYork, ethnic folk music.
@ojideagu I was refering to Mondern High German. Nor familiar with scots all that much..
But almost all current languges come from a much earlier Germanic languge.
I believe that Gaelic is spoken in the region of Caithness up into Thurso. Am I correct in this?
Where is "Scots" for widley spoken?
Is Seapánach mé agus tá mé ag foghlaim Gaeilge abhaile. Is leabhar a bhí Seapánach scríobh mo mhúinteoir anois. Níl mé in ann tuiscint an bhean seo ach amháin cuplá focla, "uisge", "agus", "didomhnaich" (it's probably for Dé Domhnaigh in Conamara dialect that I learn) mar shampla...tá mé sad go leor (I don't know "sad" in Irish yet).
...But, it makes me want more and more to learn Irish !
Go raibh míle maith 'ad, Sarah !
(By the way, Irish guys get what I said in Irish ? If so, how happy ! :D )
I understood a fair bit of what you wrote, thanks to the similarities between Gàidhlig and Gaeilge. Gur math a thèid leat leis a' Ghaeilge! 👍🏻
I have a huge hang up over not having been able to learn this riveting language!
I was always told Scots Gaelic is most like Donegal/Ulster Irish, of all the Irish dialects...but she sounds way more like Connemara Irish in the west of Ireland the way she says “anocht” (tonight) and “Sathairn” (Saturday).
That’s pretty cool. The Scots/Irish connection must be greater than just the bits of the two countries that are closest to each other.
It’s her accent
@Shantanu Khandkar:
'Gaelic' or 'Goidelic' is a language group. Irish (sometimes called Irish Gaelic) and Scottish Gaelic (generally shortened to Gaelic) are distinct but closely related languages. The other Goidelic language is Manx. They are closely related, having only diverged sometime in the late Middle Ages.
Most scholars call that language "Middle Irish" though some prefer "Middle Gaelic". The former is used because the language was confined to Ireland for a long time before spreading to Scotland and Mann where it diverged into Scottish Gaelic and Manx. Some don't like it though as they believe it implies Scottish Gaelic is not Scottish. Indeed 'Scots' speaking Lowlanders referred to the language of the highlands (Gaelic) as "Erse" (meaning Irish) in an attempt to make it seem foreign.
This is somewhat ironic. Previously "Scottis" referred to the Gaelic language of Scotland, and "Scot" itself originates from a Latin term meaning "Gael". When the English dialects of the Lowlands gained privileged position in the Scottish court they started to refer to their own dialects as "Scots" while trying to make Gaelic seem foreign - but from a etymological point of view they were calling their language "Gaelic". Kind of funny.
Love it. From Mexico.
@benkit49 Irish and Scottish Gaelic are both Celtic languages, correct?
Sounds just like all the other lenguages I don't understand. I live in Italy and to me it is incredible the large amount of dialects around here, towns distant 30 miles use considerable different dialects.
The Gaelic spoken on the weather forecast sounds so similar to the Irish variety, despite being the Scottish variety. It appears the two Gaelics are as similar to each other as Bulgarian and Russian are.
Irish don't speak Gaelic, they speak Irish Gaelic. Scots speak Gaelic period.
madeline koster Its actually just called Irish not Irish Gaelic and Scots Gaelic is called that to avoid confusion full stop.
Gaelic is a Scottish language. Irish people speak Irish Gaelic, they are related because of the Celts but differ greatly.
they are very similar and are essentially the same language Scots Gaelic has some differences in spelling and a small amount of different vocab the pronunciation is very close to the Irish spoken in Co. Donegal but starkly different to the dialects further south
I agree with you that Irish should never be referred to as Gaelic but it shouldn't be referred Irish Gaelic either It's just called Irish but I call it Scots Gaelic to avoid confusion
Ronan Kelly Many people outside of Ireland refer to 'Irish Gaelic' to differentiate from Scottish Gaelic and Manx, the only three Goidelic languages. In Scotland, Scottish Gaelic is usually referred to simply as Gaelic as well.
@Dovenpeis Myself and i do believe i'm speaking for the majority of Scots welcome anyone on earth that chooses to come and settle and build a life for themselves in our country. As long as those people contribute to our society and all work together to make Scotland a better and more prosperous place to live then i have no problem whatsoever with immigration to Scotland. It's not about where you come from, it's about where we go as a country together as one.
That could well be true in some instances, but it's definitely worth bearing in mind that there's actually a big array of variation in dialect, accent, pronunciation and even vocabulary across the Scottish Gaelic-speaking areas (mainly due to the isolation of the communities and the varying degrees of Norse influence). I imagine there's a similar situation in Irish Gaelic. So it's likely that within each of the Gaelic languages, some dialects are easier than others to learn and understand!
I wish I could get the weather like that here in Australia..
I was born and raised in Skye until age 8. English is technically my second language .. though sadly now days its my first... I do miss Home.. as Skye and Scotland ever shall be and the Gaelic channels here in Oz.
oh man I really like these languages (Welsh is interesting for me as well) They are so ancient and mysterious like our Hungarian language. :)
Thanks for the reply, and I agree.
Sadly, I'm not a SNP supporter.
I'm from a soldiering family, and therefore I've seen the other parts of Britain and beyond and have a different opinion on things. That and I live in England, and if it did pass, it'd make me a foreigner.
And it's the Scottish government that chooses what goes on in Scottish schools, not the actual British government. And if you're on about the School board, they're Welsh. Scottish schools are different from English. I know.
Was the mouse pointer from your computer or on the TV?
@PacifistPigeon Tell me please, what is "the big stage" in Gaelic? I seriously need to know :P
Tartan dress !!!
How appropriate.
It's really beautiful.
they're written by linguists. and if you're so skeptic you can look up several works on this topic (etymological dictionary of scottish-gaelic by macbain (it's online), a gaelic thesaurus by macaoidh, scottish gaelic by lamb etc.)