gaelic cartoon.

[toneliseja]

this was scary :s

[icecreamcancer]

what the fuck... mad ginger kid raiding the place

[janejanejane7]

This language is so beautiful. Love the harsh sounds lol!

[duvexy]

How awesome. It is good for me to have heard this and seen this. I have both Scottish and Irish in me. I had family that lived in Wales and in Britain before they came to America.

[evmister94]

lol the only thing i got was is mise a haga or whatever that name was

[shawry86]

this is fucked up.

[seanyk111]

never realised how close irish and scots gaelic were, but then again, makes sense.

[BlueEyedMann]

Sound like Ulster Irish to me.

Can understand a lot of it.

[macshealbhaich]

The Gaelics of Ulster, Donegal, Argyll, and the Southern Hebrides are very close; practically the same dialect.

[TommyWylie]

I understand John becoming Iain, but how does Smith turn out as "Mac a' Ghobhainn"? Smith is a job-related name and Mac is a patronimic prefix.

[aodh78]

Smith son really that different form just Smith?

[NorthLimitation]

Ghobhainn is just a smith, so Mac a' Ghobhainn is Smithson/Smith. Ghobhainn is were the area of Govan in Glasgow gets it's name. There are loads of anglicised Gaelic names in Scotland: Dow and Black come from Dubh (Black), Bowie comes from Buidhe (Yellow), bain comes from Ban (white) - those are just colour related. There are looooads more!

[Aries041487]

Yea . . . the Celts were definitely one of the tribes of Israel . . . just listen to the following:

The "HACH"

The "GLOTTAL STOP"

And the "SH"

Very similar to Hebrew in regards to their sounds . . .

[conchubhar1]

well I for one want nothing to do with israel these days.

Killing innocent people in Palestine and israel.

[strengthnfaith]

Very Similar to the dutch language also... Probobly closer to dutch

[QueenOfTheKelpies]

So? It may be similar in some ways but is very different in other ways. I for one don't like being shoved together with Israelites thank you very much. We have more Norse heritage than bloody Israelite.

[Lewie91]

Tha seo a cuir gaire orm. =P

Baldwin bheag.

X

[QueenOfTheKelpies]

I feel very hard done that I haven't a clue about Gaelic nor have I been given the opportunity to be taught it. I live in the lowlands of Scotland and even when I go to visit my Far Northern family, the only ties they have to the language is through their heritage and the fact they are given a short course of it at school. Hardly anyone speaks it cept on the Islands. It is really a pity, I think it unfair we haven't been given the opportunity to learn! The rest have their home tongue why not us?

[mew832009]

I like the 'sound track'!

[blesstheoath]

Can someone help me translate " Good day my name is John Smith and I represent the" to scot Gaelic? plz if anyone can comment back or post on my page

[daskarf]

Halo, 's e Iain Mac a' Ghobhainn an t-ainm th' orm is tha mi a' seasamh airson"

(ha-lo shay ee-yan machg a gho-een an taenam a horam is ha mi a shaysav air-son)

[Hogie506]

Cad é an ceol sa cartúin seo?

(Whats the music in this cartoon?)

[Vierett]

Why can't the Scotsmen learn Gaelic when they learn Welsh in Wales and Irish in Ireland?

[DachsHasstings]

Because alot of them are influenced by the English.Thats why I had to start learning gaelic because I was influenced by bunch of Cornish ,Britons.But I see your point and your quite smart for bringing that up:)

[zeffo21]

Um the Cornish r English.. Britons?? its not 74AD u know. Kernow hardly has any native speakers.. i guess u were influenced by the few speakers. Anyway the Welsh have always been more influenced by the English yet.. they have more native speakers. So i don't think its influence alone.. its more 2 do with Scots history being more complicated than Wales' and the fact that Scotland has been home 2 Brythonic, Goedelic then Germanic languages. Scotlands just always been in a state of language 'flux'

[Seachd12]

In Scotland since 1707 , there has been a system effort by the British establishment

[Seachd12]

To suppress all forms of Gaelic language, culture and heritage - see Battle of Culloden and Highland clearances.

Also significantly, Scots have not been taught their own history. Many Scots don't know their Gaelic heritage despite their own surnames. Language is the most powerful identifier of ethnic identity and this is why the British Govedrnment are suppresing it.

[RosserD18]

The Irish language was destroyed my the dept. of education, the sylabis is to hard and complicated and many students hate it now...:(

[Sianb007]

yup Sian Baldwin indeed!!!  Are you a gaidhlig fan i presume?

[Sianb007]

Id love to know how this got on youtube its so old!!!!

[densco87]

Sianb007 Sian Baldwin? it's on here as it is saved on an on-line archive of many Gaelic cartoons in a site called 'am baile'.

[Jeroens01]

Whats the diffrence between Irish Gaelic and Scots Gaelic?

[densco87]

its a different language. people that can speak Scottish Gaelic can understand a little bit of Irish and visa versa.

[zeffo21]

Em no, for the most part they can understand each other. Its just their different accents and the fact that they have each loaned some words (from other languages) that the other hasn't which makes things a little patchy at times. So yeah they are different languages but they are much closer to each other than say the Romance languages... overall they are nearly as close to one another as the Nordic languages are (i.e. they are mutually inteligable)

[seamuspowers]

@densco87 both peoples are related in history so it wouldnt surprise me. although scots tend to be realted alot to the norwegians too in some areas. but the scoti came from ireland. its pretty cool that both share a similar culture and arent so different. iv always liked highlanders, the highlands and bagpipes. im irish and english.

[Vierett]

As in people can speak Dutch and another language is German ;)

[elliegrim]

huh?

[crawlingbrain]

@Jeroens01 Well they're 'genetically' related - they're sister languages of Old Irish, a historical language. The Gaels, who immigrated to SW Scotland, eventually conquering/absorbing the Picts, forming the first unified Scotland, the Kingdom of Alba, spoke Irish when they crossed the Celtic Sea.

Continued contact was a force that kept the languages more similar than they would've become from the geographic division. Languages are always changing, and they two languages are still diverging!

[Boultbeemx]

I live in Mexico but all my moms family come from Scotland. I would love to learn to speak Gaelic. Congrats

[turcat13]

No way, my grandmother is from mexico, but I liv ein the usa agus Tha Gaidhlig agam. (and I speak gaelic)

[jamierourketen]

i am from glasgow and i feel totally embarressed that all of scotland is not taught the old tongue.

[theamazingwolfboy]

Does anyone have Patrick Post?

[jackruss007]

lol, I love it. I think it's great that they are (although belatedly) trying to save gaelic, like they did to welsh, which i speak. SUAS LEIS A GHAIDHLIG!

[Lunoma]

Eh, haha tá sé greannmhar nó beagán scánrúil (tá eagla orm lol :P) In Éirinn, tá Teletubbies as Gaeilg!!! (Tá siad an-scafar!!!)

[bb3ca201]

Chan fhaca mi "cartoon" mar seo riamh. Tha mise ag aontachadh ris londubh2007...tha e gle neonach, ach uabhasach math!

[AnGallGaidheal]

ceart, ceart. cha b'urrainn dhomh sin a bhruidhinn nas fhearr. neonach, a dh'aindheoin a bhtith math cuideachd.... :)

[Sylvanranger]

you guys are awesome oh what i'd give to learn a gaelic language :)

[bb3ca201]

If we could do it here, I'm sure we'd all help you along. It's not really a hard language to learn!

[lughlamh]

Would you give time and a few quid. That's all that's needed

[TAKENnameARGH]

hahahaa AWSUM!

[londubh2007]

Tha e innteanach agus neonach.