• vernacular dialects, Ulster Irish, Connacht Irish, Munster Irish and Scottish Gaelic. As the number of hereditary poets and scribes dwindled under British...
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  • This article describes the grammar of the Scottish Gaelic language. Gaelic shares with other Celtic languages a number of interesting typological features:...
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    either Scottish or Irish Gaelic. Before that time, the vernacular dialects of Ireland and Scotland were considered to belong to a single language, and in...
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    delimiters. Although Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic are closely related as Goidelic (a.k.a. Gaelic) Celtic languages, they are different in many ways. While...
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    The Hiberno-Scottish mission was a series of expeditions in the 6th and 7th centuries by Gaelic missionaries originating from Ireland that spread Celtic...
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  • and Scotland. This is often called Classical Irish, while Ethnologue gives the name "Hiberno-Scottish Gaelic" to this standardised written language. As...
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    Norse–Gaels (redirect from Hiberno-Norse)
    Gall-Goídil; Irish: Gall-Ghaeil; Scottish Gaelic: Gall-Ghàidheil, 'foreigner-Gaels') were a people of mixed Gaelic and Norse ancestry and culture. They...
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    English (including Hiberno-English), the language is usually referred to as Irish, as well as Gaelic and Irish Gaelic. The term Irish Gaelic may be seen when...
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    areas by number of Scottish Gaelic speakers List of Welsh areas by percentage of Welsh-speakers Carty, Nicola. "The First Official Language? The status of...
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    Gaels (redirect from Gaelic heritage)
    associated with the Gaelic languages: a branch of the Celtic languages comprising Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic. Gaelic language and culture originated...
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  • Irish/Scottish Gaelic and English-speaking backgrounds, ultimately developing as various creole languages. However, the various types of cant (Scottish/Irish)...
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  • Scottish English (Scottish Gaelic: Beurla Albannach) is the set of varieties of the English language spoken in Scotland. The transregional, standardised...
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    and the Celtic languages, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and, as a revived language with few speakers, Cornish. British Sign Language is also used. There...
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  • Gaelicisation (redirect from Gaelicized)
    Scotland and the Isle of Man. Gaelic, as a linguistic term, refers to the Gaelic languages but can also refer to the transmission of any other Gaelic...
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    a continuum with the Scots language. South Ulster English is a transitional dialect between Mid-Ulster English and Hiberno-English. In general, Ulster...
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    Dublin accent (Donal MacIntyre) Problems playing this file? See media help. Hiberno-English (/haɪˈbɜːrnoʊ, hɪ-/ hy-BUR-noh, hih-; from Latin: Hibernia "Ireland")...
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    Dublin (category Articles containing Hiberno-Scottish Gaelic-language text)
    Dublin. Variations on the name are also found in traditionally Gaelic-speaking areas of Scotland (Gàidhealtachd, cognate with Irish Gaeltacht), such as An...
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    Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man through the 12th century, when it began to evolve into modern Irish in Ireland, Scottish Gaelic in Scotland, and the...
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    no difference between them"; the Gaelic word deifir "hurry" is retained in the other dialects (c.f. Scottish Gaelic diofar "difference") deabhadh or deithneas...
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    County Dublin (category Articles containing Hiberno-Scottish Gaelic-language text)
    Norse: Dyflinnar skíði, lit. 'Dublinshire'.: 24  In addition to Dyflin, a Gaelic settlement known as Áth Cliath ("ford of hurdles") was located further up...
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    which differ markedly from Scottish Standard English. Approximately 2% of the population use Scottish Gaelic as their language of everyday use, primarily...
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  • Lenition (category Articles containing Hiberno-Scottish Gaelic-language text)
    grammaticalised initial consonant mutations in modern Celtic languages through the loss of endings. A Scottish Gaelic example would be the lack of lenition in am fear...
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    Whisky (category Articles containing Hiberno-Scottish Gaelic-language text)
    the Classical Gaelic word uisce (or uisge) meaning "water" (now written as uisce in Modern Irish, and uisge in Scottish Gaelic). This Gaelic word shares...
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  • was a twelfth-century Anglo-Norman baron who became a Scottish magnate and Steward of Scotland. He was a younger son of Alan fitz Flaad and Avelina de...
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    are six living languages: the four continuously living languages Breton, Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh, and the two revived languages Cornish and Manx...
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    Boudica (category Articles containing Hiberno-Scottish Gaelic-language text)
    Italian scholar Polydore Vergil, and in the Scottish historian Hector Boece's The History and Chronicles of Scotland (1526) she is 'Voada'—the first appearance...
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    in Irish. Gaels Goidelic languages Irish Language (Gaeilge) Scottish Gaelic Language (Gàidhlig) Scottish Gaelic Culture Gaelic warfare A succession of...
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    "de facto" national language of Northern Ireland,[citation needed]; it occurs in various forms, including Ulster English and Hiberno-English. Irish is an...
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    Eisteddfod (category Articles containing Hiberno-Scottish Gaelic-language text)
    ongoing fight to preserve endangered languages such as Irish, Cornish, Breton, Scottish Gaelic, Canadian Gaelic, Guernésiais, and Jèrriais. As decreed...
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    Sean (category Articles containing Irish-language text)
    Sean, also spelled Seán or Séan in Hiberno-English, is a masculine given name of Irish origin. It comes from the Irish versions of the Biblical Hebrew...
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