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.

Lol yup

Universal Scotland init

tha e fliuch an-diugh

Its true

Thought that was standard

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

Did you ever get fluent?

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.

Scottish Independence My family’s from the Western Isles, but i live in Skye and Gaelic was my first language, it’s up to the parents wether they want they’re children to go through Gaelic or English education (we have a Gaelic school and an English school) more than half the kids go to the Gaelic school, so i think the language is reviving itself

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!

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.

R. V. B. Irish Gaelic and Scottish Gaelic are modern languages they both derive from an older language we would hardly understand called Goidelic... So no, none of us speak Goidelic so we didn’t “take” anything...

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?

+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."

Hahaha!!! Wouldn't you just know it in THIS part of the world!

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

+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!

Funniest thing ever 😂

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

BHPproductions1 Mé freisin

stuif céanna , oileán éagsúla

Gerald A. Mayo Tá ceart agatsa.

beannachtaí . bogtrotter ?

Bogtrotter?

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

Probs because Scottish Gaelic evolved from old Irish

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.

Because it's not like that every day.

But how much rain and wind... that’s the question.

It’s her accent

I think it might just be the fact that a soft spoken female is speaking it.

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!!!

ceud mìle fàilte

+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

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! 👍🏻

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.

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!

specialparadise That's because Norwegian and English are in the same language family. Gaelic is not.

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

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.

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

I am home !