• Scottish Gaelic orthography has evolved over many centuries and is heavily etymologizing in its modern form. This means the orthography tends to preserve...
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    consonants), in Scottish Gaelic velarisation is only present for /n̪ˠ l̪ˠ rˠ/. This means that consonants marked "broad" by the orthography are, for the...
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    a tiny set of frozen forms). Eclipsis is shown in Irish orthography but not in Scottish Gaelic as it is conditioned by the actual environment. For example...
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    Scottish Gaelic (/ˈɡælɪk/, GAL-ik; endonym: Gàidhlig [ˈkaːlɪkʲ] ), also known as Scots Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch...
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    À (section Scottish Gaelic)
    early orthographic descriptions of Scottish Gaelic from the 18th and 19th centuries, à is the only way to represent a long [a]; later forms of Scottish Gaelic...
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    Canadian Gaelic or Cape Breton Gaelic (Scottish Gaelic: Gàidhlig Chanada, A' Ghàidhlig Chanadach or Gàidhlig Cheap Bhreatainn), often known in Canadian...
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    English, while Scots and Scottish Gaelic are minority languages. The dialect of English spoken in Scotland is referred to as Scottish English. The Celtic languages...
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  • Gaelic homeland to the Scottish literati. Later orthographic divergence has resulted in standardised pluricentristic orthographies. Manx orthography,...
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  • An Caighdeán Oifigiúil. Irish Braille Irish manual alphabet Scottish Gaelic orthography ^a Vowels with an acute accent are read as [á/é/í/ó/ú] fada "long...
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    English orthography and completely incomprehensible to readers of Irish and Scottish Gaelic. This is because both Irish and Scottish Gaelic use spelling...
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  • Scots Gaelic term is corra-litir (pronounced [ˌkʰɔrˠə ˈliʰtʲɪɾʲ]). Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (c. 1698–1770) was one of the last Scottish writers...
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  • Mid-Minch Gaelic (Scottish Gaelic: Gàidhlig meadhan na mara) is a currently developing pan-regional form of Scottish Gaelic, loosely based on the surviving...
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  • This list of Scottish Gaelic surnames shows Scottish Gaelic surnames beside their English language equivalent. Unlike English surnames (but in the same...
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  • Scottish Gaelic literature refers to literary works composed in the Scottish Gaelic language, which is, like Irish and Manx, a member of the Goidelic...
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  • Galwegian Gaelic (also known as Gallovidian Gaelic, Gallowegian Gaelic, or Galloway Gaelic) is an extinct dialect of Scottish Gaelic formerly spoken in...
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    of Gaelic that was in use by poets in Scotland and Ireland from the 13th century to the 18th century. Although the first written signs of Scottish Gaelic...
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  • -dh, -gh and -mh. For more detailed explanations of Gaelic diphthongs see Scottish Gaelic orthography. The following diphthongs are used in the Standard...
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    ("the Scottish person"), from Albanach ("Scottish person"); and go hÉirinn ("to Ireland"), from Éire ("Ireland"). In recent Scottish Gaelic orthography, a...
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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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    Irish language (redirect from Irish Gaelic)
    with them to other regions, such as Scotland and the Isle of Man, where Middle Irish gave rise to Scottish Gaelic and Manx. It was also, for a period...
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  • / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. English orthography comprises the set of rules used when writing the English language, allowing...
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    Loch (category Scottish coast and countryside)
    Spanish word for a lake, lago.[citation needed] Lowland Scots orthography, like Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Irish, represents /x/ with ch, so the word was...
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  • Bible Society of Scotland, is a Scottish Christian charity that exists to make the Bible available throughout the world. The Scottish Bible Society arose...
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  • List of Latin-script digraphs (category Articles containing Scottish Gaelic-language text)
    /d̪ˠɔɾˠəsˠ/ "door"). In Scottish Gaelic it represents /ɣ/ (beside ⟨a, o, u⟩) or /ʝ/ or /j/ (beside ⟨e, i⟩). In the pre-1985 orthography of Guinea, ⟨dh⟩ was...
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  • Cèilidh (category Articles containing Scottish Gaelic-language text)
    fear-an-tigh (or, in contemporary Scottish Gaelic orthography, fear-an-taighe), meaning 'man of the house'. The Scottish Gaelic feminine and gender-neutral...
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    The Scottish people or Scots (Scots: Scots fowk; Scottish Gaelic: Albannaich) are an ethnic group and nation native to Scotland. Historically, they emerged...
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    Ewen Cameron of Lochiel (category Articles containing Scottish Gaelic-language text)
    Ewen Cameron of Lochiel (Scottish Gaelic: Eòghann Dubh Mac Dhòmhnaill Dubh; February 1629 – c. February 1719) was a Scottish soldier and the 17th Chief...
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  • published in Scottish Gaelic in 1767 and the whole Bible (Am Bìoball Gàidhlig) was first published in 1801. Prior to these, Gaels in Scotland had used translations...
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  • Estonian orthography is the system used for writing the Estonian language and is based on the Latin alphabet. The Estonian orthography is generally guided...
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    1775 and remains the reason why Manx orthography is radically different from both Irish and Scottish Gaelic orthography. The Bible was a collective translation...
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