Isnt this being reintegrated into the schools?

There’s a Duolingo course for it now, hopefully that’ll make it more accessible

Ok thanks for reminding me I need to learn it

I really wanna learn since I think I came from a line of Celts and want to learn Irish and Gaelic to contact my ancestors ^^

I want to learn when. I'd be doing my scottish ancestors a disservice to not keep their language alive.

More like "Hu dhi dhee a hu o, roho hee a hee o." R is usually pronounced like th in the word 'the' in the most spoken Gaelic dialects nowadays.

same

Yasss

@Azyflia tha thu a ’bruidhinn Gàidhlig

@Kelia Stonehurricane fortanach dhut, a bheil sin air a ’Ghàidhealtachd an àiteigin?

Tiugg

Well they are the carriers of all men’s hopes and dreams, *THOTS*

No well proportioned and curvy. It's right there in the lyrics lol😆

The actual Gaelic word is tiugh, and unless you’re in North Arran 100 years ago, it’s pronounced ‘choo’. However, you are correct in that tiug (or in this case tiugg) would be pronounced ‘choog’ :)

@@seamusogdonn-gaidhligarain2745 lol

Fascinating to me because I'm learning to felt, and also learning this song and a couple of others. Wish I had a bunch of women to help out!

I said 'felt' but actually you have to stop before the wool begins to felt, but is just thick and fluffy. You can see more on our website www.waulk.org

Moon Light Lol these days we have warm water and dish soap but back in the day they had to use fresh piss 😂

Work it.

I love this knowledge. Thank you.

Idk why im laughing louder than i should have😂

I wrote a poem for her that sounded weird, but it was in welsh. So she couldn’t understand what I wrote.

@@seanhartnett79 its so funny i didn't knew you guys speak a completely different language 😬ain't welsh and scottish suppose to be English ?

ruby rein yes we do. And due to your governments policies the languages are critically endangered. A descendent of Irish and welsh people displaced into the US

ruby rein calling a Scotsman or welsh man English is a good way to get stabbed.

We are warriors, all the best from Scotland. ALBA GU BRATH

I agree

It’s true 🇮🇪

@Flixter 101 .Cheers. SAOR ALBA GU BRATH.

Aye.

is the word waulking means walking ?

@@nourhanbe6163 No, it’s fabric/thread work. Specifically with tweed. I don’t know much about it, so you’d be better off looking it up

@@yoursaviorishere4365 thank u im so in love with celtic cultur and history

@@nourhanbe6163 waulking is the process of basically beating up wet tweed fabric until it has the right texture and stretch/shrinkage; many women at a time work on the same piece of fabric, so they sing to keep rhythm.

That is such a special and beautiful memory - thanks for sharing it here.

phantomwriter05 actually this particular song and rhythm is used during the activity of waulking, (making the tweed that was used for clothing soft by beating it with urine in a circle on a table) it is very similar to a sea shanty song though!

Yeah, I figured ... But we're both right. Most Celtic Waulking songs were appropriated on ships and Army postings in the mid and late eighteenth century due to many young boys being pressed into service and remembering their mothers and aunts Waulking songs. It's just that, because, the British didn't allow Gaelic to be spoken after the last Jacobite Rebellion, many of the songs took different words, but the rhythm and music remained the same. For example The Irish Jacobite Song oro bheatha bhaile is also the tune for "What do you do with a Drunken Sailor?", even this song Gaol ise Gaol has an Army equivalent used during the Napoleonic Wars that Irish and Highlanders sang on the march in Spain ... though , to be fair, I don't remember what it's called anymore.

You'll find this is far more of a Sea Shanty (by the late Stan Rogers based in Halifax Nova Scotia) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kK-nrbWcz9ScZqs.html Have some amazing Sea Shanty songs over there in Canada, Runrigs lead singer Bruce Guthro (folding it all up by the end of their current tour they're on right now) he's from Nova Scota well Cape Bretan Island he's in this with Alan Doyle formerly with Sean McCann the lead singers of Great Big Sea who sadly split kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fbqRiNt0ramzg4U.html actually in the same place the song's about, that obviously being Halifax N.S.

Some of Al's solo songs are fucking epic! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bdKjrcuf0tXZnIk.html this being one of them. Alan Doyle not living in Nova Scotia but from Petty Harbour, right in the middle practically of Motion Bay in St Johns Newfoundland (or Newfoundland and Labrador yes where the bred of dog originates from aka Newfie!). This may make ya's laugh kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eLCce7eFtpOXlnU.html lol a lot of names rhyme with Rick, my thoughts immediately came to yeah dick PMSL! Then this more about Newfies music kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hsyVidp5063QnY0.html

I’m going to cry...

Anny Phoenix be even wilder if your hubby’s name was Neill

Mine too. Or at least when he was young. He will always be dark to me.

@@softmettle Probably not ideal cause the lady in this song is Anna daughter of Neil lol

There are no coincidences lol

Long and good life to you and your baby !

It’s the fantasy and magic in them

folk music in general does

I could be learning Spanish right now (something I would probably actually get good use out of) but I absolutely fell in love with the Scottish/Irish accent and language thanks to outlander. Now I’m working on it. I started learning it about a week ago and it’s been so much fun :) very sad that it’s a dying language, it’s so beautiful. We gotta keep it alive! Slàinte!

(L)

it's an absolutely stunning and beautifully heart warming language. Knowing that it might die one day out of existence breaks my heart. Albeit it being quiet difficult to learn I have taken on the task to learn it at least somewhat fluently to hopefully one day sing all those beautiful Gaelic songs to my children

In what alternative reality is it dying? 🤣

@@tovarishlumberjack2356 Only around 1% of Scots can speak Gaelic meaning it is gradually being lost as a language, so it's not really an alternative reality, is it?

My wife and I started a language learning trend in our family. Twelve people decided to all learn Gaidhlig. She and I were hoping to have a language we could speak secretly to one another around the kids but it is fun to have us all learning another language together.

Slainte!

I prefer the mountain dew. ;) Haven't gone blind yet!

You really should just go with it even if you dont understand the text its far easier way of learning Gáidhlig trust me, sounding it all out first then comparing it to text next is always the best way to go :)

Jeremy Smith thank you so much I will

Cynthia Jotim an easy one is the one I'm Brave. Noble Maiden Fair. Easy to remember, and the song got me into learning Scottish Gaelic!

You're learning Scottish Gaelic? How/where are you doing it because I really want to, for the same reason as you, pretty much, haha

Tess Burgoyne learngaelic.com or something like that. I can't remember it off the top of my head

The same way

as a scottish person i love this comment

​@@liz1474 another fellow russian here. time for me to start learning Scottish Gaelic too. it's very melodic and beautiful. annnd not gonna lie i wanna learn more swear words in a different language. being just a russian and english speaker is boring, need more lol

Russian and Celtic are but two of many separate branches of Indo-European languages. With or whether they are ethnically related is somewhat uncertain. Gaulish was an ancient Celtic language in as much as Proto-Slavic or Old Church Slavonic was.

The Irish Welcome the Russians!!! Thank you for taking an interest

Shinzenbi ikrrr i noticed that too

Wow, you’re right

Shinzenbi I’ve also spent the evening listening to Maori war chants lmaoo

I’ve always thought that!! They are my two favourite languages both so beautiful 😭😭😭 can’t believe someone else pointed it out

Paula Bagur WE LOVE CLAIRE FRASER!!!

I'm sorry, but who?

art lover the woman of the photo is a character of the series outlander, named Claire Fraser ✨

Oh okay, thanks for telling me!

art lover have a nice day ✨

chuckles..@Zoe Kouf, I don't really watch television. Too many things going on in life to sit down and really get into a series. But, I might catch a few just to see what the hype is about. I knew quite a bit of history already. There are no Campbell's in my history. winks

Death to the Saxon foe.

Debbie B it’s a book too

@@MissouriCrookedBarnHomestead Better yet, read the books by Diane Gabaldon and skip the TV entirely. Start with the book called Outlander, though I think the Brit version is called Sassenach

@@wandabissell I've been doing both since this reference. Just finished season 4. Seems that the series is going a bit fast. All in all, I love the premise.

You have a good Scottish name. ALBA GU BRATH

Just go - I did in 2018, and loved it. (Also a Cape Bretoner)

Nova Scotia is such a beautiful, you're very lucky

I never liked the word Celt.........

I'd love to go to Nova Scotia :) For now, my first novel will be set in Halifax ;-) Subject: folk music, hehe.

Margaret Eliza same🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I'm no Scottish, but I fell in love with Scotland when I went there. You're such proud and respectful people. Hope you can one day become your nation and strive, and one day I hope to come back and live there.

Proud cat owner

Same! I'm half Scotiish and learning Scottish Gaidhlig

А комменты пишешь на английском а на гаэльском можешь писать?

Yasssss

Not necessarily. The name Neil has been in fairly constant use in that part of the world, ever since that kingdom was there. On the other hand, the use of a patronymic rather than a surname definitely puts it back a couple of hundred years or so.

Columba/Colm Cille (from Derry-Doire Cholm Cille) copied another's book and was brought before the Árd Rí (High King) of Ireland who gave the verdict "To every cow her calf, to every book its copy" and banished him to Iona. He founded a new monastery there but it was an island already owned by his Clan. (Gaeilge - Clann.)

It’d be fun to have her as an ancestor!

@Michael Halligan u doin me an educate

's e do bheatha :) that's a good suggestion, I'll probably try with Navan's version, it's the best I could find... it's nowhere to be found on KZfaq though, I just hope they'll let me upload it!

There's a Duolingo course. And a decent amount of Gaelic media on KZfaq. There's a channel called "Carl's Lingo Kingdom" who has a few short videos discussing the Gaelic language and using Gaelic phrases.

this is scottish! not irish :)

I see, my bad lol

@@maihardy9343 thx for reminding, I fixed it now

@Fred Limkin very well Fred thank you & you?

@Fred Limkin West Palm Beach Florida, you?

@Fred Limkin yes a few times, my Sister lived there for quite some time San Bernardino & Alameda.

@Fred Limkin the weather is Gorgeous (always)

@Fred Limkin very nice! Perhaps I am from there also, let’s see what the ancestry DNA results have to say😃

i think you would get it quick, i used to date a Dutchman from Amsterdam, and this Philly girl picked up Nederlands pretty fast when i went there w him, and i think that kinda guttural (spelling is wrong, sorry) hhheh sound you guys sometimes make (like at the beginning of "goed", and the like) would translate to their guttural sounds well. might have slightly different tongue placement, esp for the "LL", but i actually think theyd mesh well.

@@IDontKnow-pf6en Aha, now this is gonna be interesting. Would you like to tell me more about how Dutch did sound to you prior to when your brain started to recognise words and sentence structure?

Yes! I love that song! I would love to know what it means.

Eww stay in your desert pls. We don't need more third-worlders defiling our lands

@@raraszek lol troll

@@ieetrgun2620 Why is someone expressing a point of view believed by the majority a troll, you are the fukin troll.

Ignore the two foul morons. I think your deserts are beautiful! And if you wish to come here, I hope you're able.

I feel that. I live in the southeastern US as well, and my mothers side of the family is Irish. They came to America through Ellis island in the early 1900s, and while my family is fairly well off in that regard, due to the fact that some of the objects they brought with them are still in the family and my aunt knows a good deal about our family history, its still very difficult to recapture that culture once its been lost.

@@purpleoctopie7722 my issue is that I have a common Scottish name. Reid and Burns...

Do not equate the Scots Irish as being Irish, they are Scots who happend to live in Northern Ireland, they are Scots and never will be Irish. I think you Americans really need be educated on the facts. They lived in Northern Ireland then went to America. SAOR ALBA GU BRATH

I don't think anyone did sir. If you noticed the first statement I made a distinction between the Irish and the Scots and the Scotch-Irish.

Dyaus Pitar (Vedic), Zeus Pater (Greek), Jupiter (Roman), Dei Patrous (Illyrian), Dievs (Baltic). Uṣas (Vedic), Eos (Greek), Aurora (Roman), Aushrine (Baltic). Varuṇa (Vedic), Odinn/Wodan (Germanic), Ouranous (Greek), Velinas (Baltic). Asura (Vedic), Aesir (Germanic), Ahura (Avestan). Marut (Vedic), Ares (Greek), Mars (Roman). Parjanya (Vedic), Perkunas (Baltic), Perunu (Slavic), Fjorgyn (Germanic). Traitana (Vedic), Thraetaona (Avestan), Triton (Greek). Aryaman (Vedic), Airyaman (Avestan), Ariomanus/Eremon (Celtic). Saramā/Sārameya (Vedic), Hermes (Greek). Pūṣan, Paṇi (Vedic), Pan (Greek), Vanir (Germanic). Rudra (Vedic), Ruglu (Slavic). Danu (Vedic), Danu (Irish). Indra (Vedic), Indra (Avestan), Inara (Hittite). Śarvara (Vedic), Kerberos (Greek). Śrī (Vedic), Ceres (Greek), Freyr/Freya (Germanic). Bhaga (Vedic), Baga (Avestan), Bog (Slavic). Apām Napāt (Vedic), Apām Napāt (Avestan), Neptunus (Roman), Nechtain (Celtic). Ṛbhu (Vedic), Elbe (Germanic). Yama (Vedic), Yima (Avestan), Ymir (Germanic).

cool u can be an honorary scot!

31%

I'm around 80% (give or take, probably less) Irish (I'm from America) and I want to go there SO BAD! Scotland is amazing too, i think that going there would be a magical experience.

Puerto Rican as well, and have some Irish ancestry. The history and culture of Scotland has always fascinated me. The Gaelic language and music are beautiful.

I'm of Puerto Rican descent too, but I've always been interested in Irish, Scottish, and British culture. I don't know if I have any Irish or British blood, but I haven't looked further into my ancestry than my great-grandparents, so it's possible. Most Puerto Ricans are descended from Spaniards and Spain is a close neighbor of Ireland and Britain, so their peoples could have done a lot of intermixing, especially in the time periods in which the population was so small that they had to look far away for spouses in order to avoid having to marry their cousins.

200 Γ‐gtp Scottish!

It is Scottish, Thank for liking our music.

Easy way to tell at first glance are the fadas. (Accents) If they point to the right, (á) it’s Irish. To the left (à) it’s Scottish’s (In general)

most scottish people don’t speak Gaelic this is actually the first time i’ve ever heard a gaelic song lol

@@No-ls7gk it depends on where you live in Scotland

tha mi ag aontachadh ach dhòmhsa tha e a ’toirt orm a dhol a choiseachd tro na cnuic is na craobhan 😁