That's probably the best way I've ever heard our language described ☆☆☆

And as the lightening strikes with a glorious thunder, I go again, magically lost in it's wonder. 🇮🇪💚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I second that it’s definitely the best description I’ve ever heard. While I may not have been born in Scotland the blood of my fathers is strong within me.

@@Alasdair37448 No it's not.

If the government gave it enough priority to teach it in schools, the way the Dutch learn English in schools, then it would come back. But you don’t need Gaelic to make money. It’s not a commercial language, so not even the current SNP government is doing enough about it, as far as I’m aware. Then again, there won’t be enough teachers fluent in the language in the first place, so that they can teach it.

Sounds very like my dear wee mum 🥲 so grateful to have grown up around fierce Scottish women ❤

I absolutely love how you wrote that and explained her. She is a good example of a strong woman. Makes me so happy to hear you had a mother like that. She lives through this music to guide you. ( i believe if you believe other wise that is obvious fine lol)

So lovely

Brother that's domestic abuse

Your mum sounds like a legend! We Scottish women are a different breed, kind, loving and gentle until a line is crossed, our wrath is direct and trouble is swiftly dealt wae.

There's still a chance. From where I live some of our Indigenous languages are diminishing for years until it becomes strict like if you're an Indigenous person & you can't speak your language, don't know any folk lore & don't know any tribal dance you can't get benefits like Education Scholarship for Indigenous people, Some provinces required government employees(Indigenous or Non-indigenous) to learn the Indigenous language in that certain area and if an Indigenous person graduates & work for the government like a public teacher are required to conduct a theses about her/his tribe.

All culture is needed :)

Not all

They have actually already lost their language. They mainly speak English because it became her mother tongue. And only few take the effort to learn a difficult and completely different language, even if the language sounds beautiful. It survives in songs as long as people listen to these songs. But a greater help for the language would be to actually learn it and use it to produce songs or as a mean of communication

@@donatiuspynethz1296 educating people when u dont know what your talking about is not a good thing. We a have a concerted effort funded by our government to keep our language alive. As do the irish in the republic. And loads of us still speak it so please educate yourself first if your going to try educate others

I hoped to find someone to speak it as I was in Dublin and I didn't meet anyone who could. My impression is that they mostly speak English that was disappointing. I have even heard that many don't like to learn it because it is seen as a political instrument by the Catholics. On the other hand the point that in school it's not taught in the right way. I would like to believe that people still speak it but it's a difference if only some people speak it instead of the whole country speaking it. If I go to Italy people speak Italian. In Spain spanish. But in Ireland they speak English? Doesn't that mean that England succeeded? Isn't it better to speak a language that connects you with the heritage of your country. Even if that means the Catholics succeed with their politics. Because isn't that better than speaking the language of the English oppressors. I think languages that evolved from the caltic language are far more beautiful than those who evolved from Latin.

Gura mie mur ayd! :) (yeah, I know it's Manx, not Scottish, but it's the form of Gaelic I know. I'm sure you know what I said, lol.)

Blurquoise She dty vea.

@@blurquoise5301 Irish, Scottish and Manx, Is muide den chlann ceannann céanna. We're from the same family. (An Irish Gaelic speaker)

The first line of the antepenultimate phrise is off...

Blurquoise how on Earth could you possibly speak Manx? I'm not saying you can't, I'm just asking because it's practically a dead tongue.

Same here

im spanish , and im feeling the same , i feel identifyed with this kind of culture , nature , im musician amateur and in the musical point of view , this melodies and armonies are jewells , but in my humble theory , this culture and music conecting with the ancient europe identity , chamanic and feirytales of whole europe before roman empire destroyed all, but it remeins in our subconscient , in madrid spain , there are a few irish pubs where you can play celtic music with others amateur musicians, and in the northwest of spain there is a region zone called , galicia , wich has to do much with celtic traditions .

I'm from Nigeria and also moved by this Scottish Gaelic vocalist and her melodies. There's a richness and a story behind the tones and words. Beautiful. I wish we could all share our cultures in peace.

learn it with your family, speak it in your house and in your lives. get in touch with the moray language centre, they will help you.

you're so lucky! i managed to learn a few sentences in scottish gaelic, and now found a website that teaches languages for free, they didn't have scottish but they have irish. i just feel that i can;t figure out the pronunciation.

SSC, keep listening to Scottish Gaelic music. Julie Fowlis is exceptional, but there are many others as well. As the music spreads, more and more people want to learn the language.

It's all up to you scots :)

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We are all brothers and sisters my friend just spread apart. Our culture is your culture

that's a beautiful wish

Music in your soul - you are from the same country. Not this Earth, though, of course.

@@luxfer7794 you Ii

@@luxfer7794 I u I u

I'm Irish. Born and raised, almost 100% without my culture or language. I listen to tons of music, in both Gaeilge and Gàidhlig. I grew up minimally around my own culture. I hope to relearn and reconnect. I am grateful that you are living how I would like to :) I just turned 18 and as soon as I can, I'm going back to the Inis Mór village where my family came from 105 years ago to try and find relatives. Gael Americans need to drop the patriot shit and find pride in our ancestral homeland. An phoblacht núa abú. Note: my username is not my real name, lol, "hapner" is not my real surname, I've got a Mc name

Ulysses Hapner We Americans tend to be very proud of both without contradiction. That’s one of the nice things about being American-Pride in your ancestral roots, and proud of what they all came together to create in America. (not ignoring the flaws of course, and trying to learn from them)

@@culturecoroner In the homeland we look down upon Americans for continuing to live upon stolen soil.

@@siionach Where the hell else should we live, then? Our ancestor's homelands? Can't do that, that'd massively overwhelm your countries' infrastructure. America has 32 million people who are of Irish descent, and the homeland only has 5 million. Where are you gonna put us? How would you even begin to handle an influx of people that outnumber your own native population almost seven to one? What of other nations? German Americans number over 43 million- do you think Germany could handle that amount of people coming to in a country that already has 83 million? And what of people of multiple ethnicities, which are a majority of Americans? Where do we go? What do we do? Just curl up and die, since we can't split ourselves into fractions? Let's face it, what happened in the past is irreversible and trying to reverse it against all common sense would be a fucking humanitarian crisis on a scale never seen before. Don't look down on us for something our very distant ancestors did (or never did at all, considering the majority of the US population's ancestors arrived far after colonization began on American shores). The sins of the father (or, more likely, a man that has same skin colors as the father) do not pass on to the son.

@@siionach It's just a home away from home...

Lucky you!

Same!

Its the scottish gaels your listening too ancient celtic language you can search scottish gaelic music and find loads of fantastic music and some songs have it translated into English so people can understand what they are listening too am scottish my self but my language was band and replacement of English but now so much is lost about our language and we will never have it again just like everything this world the replace it all eventually.

I'm French, and same xD

@@archiebrown3719 Thanks! :D I'll search some music. On the other hand, I understand how you feel. Many dialects in my country are forever forgotten :( Because there's no people who speaks (or even cares) anymore. But maybe music will help to preserve all these old languages. :3

@@vampii8033 oh so cool! :D Belle journée pote :9

I'm working on learning each language of my culture ( Polish, Scots Gaelic, and German), best of luck to you! I'm working on Gaelic and German first :)

I have both Highland Scots and Irish ancestry, and I'd love to learn how to speak Gaidhlig/Gaelic, but the problem is, which form of the language to learn? They're related but not identical languages. Another problem is that I have no practical application for either language.

@@stevestruthers6180 Re a reason to learn, if you enjoy listening to Gaelic music, perhaps it may give you a better experience if you understand the words better. Also, many of Julie Fowlis' songs are taken from the huge corpus of classical gaelic literature. Its a great introduction to those wonderful poems and stories.

@@mikem9001 Tapadh leat!

@@stevestruthers6180 you are correct that they aren't identical but they do share 80/90 percent mutual intelligibility and with a wee bit of patience a full conversation can be had between the two.......Gaidhlig descended from Gaedhlig and at one time Gaedhlig was the language spoken by Irish Manx and Scottish , eventually they split into separate languages but still retain mutual intelligibility and buíochas le Dia enough from all three survived in written and spoken form to be able to keep them from dieing.

I love this, Abby. xx

That sent a shiver down my spine...a good one. That imagery perfectly represents this song! X

You're literally living my dream life: a life on a farm, with the forest and nature around me. That's the life I wish to have :)

I'll have a pint of what you're on Abby or does it sell by the gram?

This voice was surely crafted in heaven, for even the beasts of the forest stop and listen. - Wow what a beautiful thing to say. Actual poetry.

Heretic. Irish is the mother tongue of Scottish Gaelic :-)

@@billnicks2362 But he is right, I always thought that as well.

@@billnicks2362 Why does that make someone a heretic? Sometimes the revised version of a language is more pleasant to the ears XD

@Patricia Reedy patricia can you not

bot of them Irish and scottish are wonderful to listen to.;

Thank you!❤

Thnx

What a beautiful picture you’ve painted.

Slainte, SAOR ALBA GU BRATH

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Ní leor teanga amháin, a chara ;).

You could learn it for free on Duolingo. I'm doing that right now 😅

@@FaeSparrow I thought Duolingo and other things demand payment for using it. Or is this dependend on the language you want to learn?

@@FaeSparrow me too and I am an old ( 80) french-speaking Swiss ( we have Celtic blood too, remember the HELVETII massacred by Julius Caesar at the very beginning of his conquest of GAULE ? and I live now over 30 years in South America but I love languages and the CELTIC cultures . DUOLINGO is great but listening to the Gaelic songs on YT is even better because we have both ( generally) the Gaelic and english lyrics. so we can understand the Gaelic and understand how it is pronounced as compared to how it is spelled. a HUGE help.

Our loss, probably.

Moi aussi, mais j'ai un ligne familiale avec les Ecossais. Je suis americain, le francais, est-il vraiment logique ou stupide?

Basque, Welsh and Irish descent. ❤❤ Among others.

As a Scottish woman I love this comment ❤

You can learn it online. You will need good english though.

Hi Kit,have you checked out Gaelic With Jason on You Tube,(hes à American from Maine) ,and hes glè mhath 👍

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is it 1 year and 6 months now?

Many of us from Ireland have Basque or other Spanish roots. We have Spanish towns and dark hair, dark skinned natives thanks to Spain including my family in Belfast. Cool comment!

Basques... fascinating people! with some interesting music as well

That is because the blood is strong. SAOR ALBA GU BRATH

Courtney Carlson thank you so much ! !!!!😁😁

pareil pour moi ! :)

Me too

I actually looked up the lyrics to it, and it's about a woman who gives her word and promise that someone she loved was her first love :)

I marked which way to read my attempt at a translation(^). (I arose early on a misty morning Hò gurie hòm ò and I sat on the lovely hillock Hi rim i call eile Hò a ho hì rì Eu rubh i a ho eu Hò gurie hòm ò) ^Dh’èirich mi moch madainn cheòthar Hò gurie hòm ò ’s shuidh mi air a chnocan bhòidheach Hi rim i call eile Hò a ho hì rì Eu rubh i a ho eu Hò gurie hòm ò (My sweetheart came to me We chattered about foolish things. He failed to come when he should have A short time before I married the son of the mournful old man who didn’t give me a belt, a head-dress or shoe) ^Thàinig mo leannan am chòmhdail Bhuail sinn air a chòmhradh ghòrach Cha d’ thàinig e nuair bu chòir dhà Tiota beag mun d’ rinn mi ’m pòsadh Ri mac a bhodachain bhrònaich Nach tug crios, neo brèid neo bròg dhomh. Nach tug an stìom is i bu chòir dhomh (Who didn’t give me the head-band which is my right. Son of the man from the winged rock and the large island of the wild birds I would give my promise and my word I would swear it even if a knife were held to me that it was to you I gave my first love.) ^Mhic an fhir o’n charra sgiathach, ’S eilean mòr nan eun fiadhaich, Bheirinn fhèin mo bhòid ’s mo bhriathran, Mionnan ged do chùmte sgian rium, Gur h-ann duit a thug mi ’n ciad ghaol.

Maybe we do.

All be deserving. Blessed be.

Slainte. SAOR ALBA GU BRATH

You made me cry too, I miss Eire...

Every time

@Mya Buttreeks And what the fuck is wrong with being white. SAOR ALBA GU BRATH

That happens to me too :,)

There will be a pint of beer waiting for you at the bar when you come home to the old country, love from Scotland.

I am Scottish, and I am six foot one inch, I have reddish blonde hair and beard and blue eyes. I am from the Gallowglass, {Norse Gael} if you do not ken what that is google it. SAOR ALBA GU BRATH

@William Quin Hi! It’s actually Scottish Gaelic (pronounced gay-lic instead of gah-lic) as Julie is from Scotland 😌

You’ve turned your water to Hagis instead of beer....

@@winterfall4028 Gah-lic would be Gallic, as in relating to the Gauls (French). Gaelic is a term referencing both Irish Gaelic and Scottish Gaelic, pronounced the same for either. Its used internationally, however in Ireland we use Gaeilge to mean the Irish language. The pronunciation differs massively though depending on what part of Ireland you learned to speak in :P (for me its gwail-ge)

I'm not too sure about what William Quin said earlier, but perhaps he was referring to the Scottish Gaelic word for the language itself, Gàidhlig? Which from my understanding is pronounced like gah-lic

@@judeoneill2562 In Scotland we pronounce it gah-lig (Gàidhlig) to differentiate it from Irish

Lupin lll rocks I've got scotch in my blood 👍

The lyrics are quite bittersweet. 😔

The English have spent decades trying remove it, for some made language called English, children were severely punished for speaking Gaelic and believe the same in Wales!

"Our people" have done that to each other, as much as anyone else. "Do not forget Oliver Cromwell" Why? What is his relevance today?

biodh is go bhfuil an ceart agat,is trua nar labhair tu i ngaeilge e!

jajaj, que chevere un comentario colombiano, acabo de descubrir estas canciones en gaelico, son hermosas

Jeje 😅 lo lindo de internet es descubrir esas joyitas. Y lo lindo de la música es que es un sentimiento universal ❤