germanic language=norwegian, icelandic, english, frisian etc.some of which may sound similar or exist in the same place as gaelic-irish gaelic sounds very similar! but don't actually have anything in common at all. the interaction was only a few slaves taken by the vikings to iceland, and pretty much old norse hasn't changed much (its almost icelandic) so there's little chance of it being germanic..old english influence yes a little, but not much
so does anyone know why they are claiming this as a germanic language nowadays? Because listening to this, I think it's a pretty ridiculous assertion.
@12hiddendragons Who's calling it a Germanic language? Celtic languages are Indo-European but definitely not Germanic. They have certain features that set them way apart from Germanic.
@sazji Well, I was a little confused there...I heard someone saying that the Scottish language was germanic, and since this is the only scottish language there is, I was watching this and scratching my head because it is clearly not germanic at all.
Actually, what they meant was that the Scots dialect of english is supposedly germanic, which is kind of odd since it can mostly be understood by an english speaker.
@12hiddendragons Ah, got it. Actually English is a Germanic language; in the Anglo-Saxon branch. It's got lots in common with German actually, and even more with Dutch and Frisian. If you go back to Chaucer's English it's even more obvious. Ex. German "Das ist nicht gut," Dutch "Dat is niet goed," English That is not good. Some Scottish English does preserve some older words like "ken" to know (German "kennen"); also "kirk" (Dutch "kerk," German "Kirche") for church, etc.
@sazji since you seem to be more knowledgeable than most of the tards around youtube, I was curious...exactly how common is Gaelic in Scotland? I'm just curious as to about how many people speak it. I know I could look up statistics, but those arent always trustworthy.
English is a Germanic, Nordic in origin language with non-saxon Briton mixed in ie Welsh and Gaelic Scots. The Scottish, Welsh and Irish languages are unique to the British Isles. English is pollution from the European mainland.
As a native speaker of a nordic language (danish), I can say that it is completely incomprehensible to me. English er far closer related to the nordic languages that gaelic.
HER embarrassing American ignorance, thank you very much! :-) And New York needs Texas a lot more than we need you. On point...wonderfully entertaining video; sounds to me like someone from Norway, actually.
Please excuse EVANDERGELD for his embarrassing American ignorance. We New Yorkers barely comprehend TEXANS. Agreed, it is such a beautiful language.If only my age and aptitude allowed me to master such diverse languages.
@papichulo2534 No age is too old for language learning. All of the stuff about 'after a certain age you can no longer learn a new language' is crap. Absolutely and utterly. There are some very well-reknowned programs out there for learning Scots Gaelic- some of which are online using things like Skype to connect, breaking down any geographical barriers. You could totally do it :)
@papichulo2534 Hey, if English was good enuf fer our Lord Jesus Christ, it's good enuf fer me! (-Miriam Ferguson, first female governor of Texas, 1924) ;)
@emperorkk She probably didn't actually say it; it seems the line had been around in different forms even before it was attributed to her. It's been attributed to various conservative southern politicians to show them as bumpkins, so I should be fair and avoid the northern stereotypes. :) I wonder, can an Irish speaker understand her? Half? 75% of what she's saying?
@evandergeld This is Gaelic, Scots Gaelic, a language everyone should hope to learn, it's one of the languages that along with the other Gaelic and Celtic and Scandinavian languages that can just captivate you upon hearing it.
Not many, mostly in the Highlands and Islands, but it is making a bit of a comeback.
Scots and Irish Gaelic have common ancestry, lot of common history as well. It is just over the water, which was quicker to travel to than by land. Just over the many many years theyv taken different paths so you get differences.
Bretagne also.Although there are very few diwan teachers.Its another branch of celtic languages only it is grounded in regional French.All those dialects will disappear completely in 100 years max anyway.They will go the same way many did because of homogenization of languages.
@diiebane Well, if they're growing up in the Scottish Lowlands then they will already speak English anyway, they would then be learning Gaelic at school. Unless I'm out of date then French is the currently compulsory second language in Scottish schools, with German and Spanish available later on.
Languages are very poorly taught in British schools anyway if attainment levels are anything to go by and children would perhaps be more motivated to learn an ancestral language than a random one.
There are some fine factual history books around,Sweiland75,which should give you a rather more accurate idea than Mel Gibson as to British and American history.
@aoj2108 only 1.2-1.5% of Scots can speak Gaelic. Scots, which is a germanic language similar to English is what is traditionally spoken in lowland parts of Scotland (borders, central and up the east coast). Gaelic is only spoken in parts of the Western Isles and parts of the islands.
@OfficialRJLextro I've never come across an inbred person in Scotland. Perhaps you get your kicks from posting ignorant comments and disrespecting any culture or language which you're unfamiliar with. You could apply the whole incest thing to any rural setting, anywhere in the world.
@purenectar You've never come across an imbred person because you've never been to a small community rife with incest. And if you have, i think they keep them in the basement. You really need to lighten up, get a sense of humour.
@TheCuteprincesss ... it's Gaelic, a completely different and very old celtic language spoken in northern Scotland and (a variation) in Ireland. Other celtic languages spoken are Welsh, Manx, Cornish and Breton.
I dont see why it needs to be learnt as such, It serves no purpose in the modern world and time learnt for a language that is very loaclized could be used for real life skills like money management to get this countey sorted. I dont disown the language aswell as Welsh but really it should be a hobbiest / club thing rather then something compulsary.
@R33Racer I'm sure those Gaels who learned it as their first language agree with you, as do those pissed off at seeing the last remnants their culture continue to die. Being told that they should learn the language of the culture that caused this instead won't rub any salt in the wound either...
@Angdharagh Shit chages over time, get used to it. Your probably the sort of person who would rather still use a horse over a car. Do yourself a favor and get a grip.
@Angdharagh Bullshit, nothing wrong with my gramma in the last comment. It's a fucking opinion, if you got a problem with it keep it to yourself, especially if your not going to make a valid point. Someone fucked up bad whrn they decided not to abort you poor excuse of a human being.
@Angdharagh I am more of a human then some YouTube replying twatbag will ever be. I was clearly being kind saying you was a poor excuse, maybe I just wasn't honest enough? Anyway say what the fuck you want i'm not going to take up my time to reply or view your idiotic bullshit, come to think of it i'll just put you on block/ignore so don't waste your pathetic life. Learn to tell the difference between your bollocks and your mouth if you want to actually show you have a fucking brain.
@joecugo My roots are 50/50 Scandinavian/Scottish and I was born before marriage so you're right... but that doesn't actually counter my argument at all and is frankly childish. At least you used proper Grammar I guess... could've made the effort to capitalise and full stop though.
There is no point ... at all ... to learning Gaelic. Sorry but I'm all for preserving national pride but some things are outdated. Internationally English is the most spoken language if we do not count chinese (because they are the largest populace...). I think that it is more important to learn English than Gaelic. Scottish pride .. yeah .. whatever. Sorry but .. I just don't get it.
Modern society has no place for culture, culture is not important anymore in my opinion.
@Break2beCool Hm, yeah, you're right. Spanish also suffers from breeding syndrome though, same as the Chinese... just on a smaller scale :P
Fact is, the worldwide "universal language" that everyone learns is English.. because of the USA. Why would be essentially cripple ourselves with one language when we can just focus on one and be a master of that? Fact is, if you learned Gaelic, it's practically useless unless you go to Northern Scotland.
No, if you simply refer to native speakers, Chinese is a larger language than Spanish. However, if you include the number of people sufficient in a particular language, English is by far the largest language in the world thanks to the legacy of the British Empire.
@amutinyinheaven - you're right, it is still technically a Germanic language. However, the influence of Latin and French have completely changed the structure and vocabulary so that it has almost no relationship to German. That's all I meant by the "was". Lol back at ya!
its so like your cousins in ireland sounds almost the same as irish, its so important for scotland to be proud of its native culture and protect all that was before ,this clearly shows these waters should renamed the celt isles after all for what is most beautiful in writings and art extra comes from celt countrys and when history is revisted its so clear the common ways of life in art and culture how a like we truely are SLAN AGUS BEANNACHT
Too bad SNP TRAITORS only care about ISLAM FESTIVALS and DIVERSITY and MORE IMMIGRATION. Fucking assholes are no better than nation wrecking Labour. All you have to have to do is look at England and see how shitty multiculturalism is. We should be preserving and trying to save this language. Kick SNP out and get a real nationalist party in.
@ polishranger - Gaelic is NOT German based - it is a Celtic language. The Celts predate the Germans in Europe. English was originally a Germanic language.
As an American, I'm used to hearing Scottish accents portrayed by eccentric comedic characters on TV or in movies. But hearing the language it actually comes from brings it a lot of dignity and beauty. It really is a lovely language.
@GeoVII and you are a typical american (no offense intended). people who's scottish accent you usually hear are not gealic speakers but native english speakers. that english spoken in scotland is heavily influenced by scot a germanic language once spoken in parts of scotland. look up scot lanugage on wiki and see what i'm talking about.
Scots Gaelic is a dead language that is being propped up artificially - like African big game and Australian aboriginal villages. All part of the false western heritage industry. Assimilation and globalisation is the way forward
I'm a lowlander Scot and have always been fascinated by the Gaelic language my fellow Scots to the north speak. I've already started learning the basics and hope one day to speak it fluently. What a stunning language it is and i'm glad the Scottish Government are doing everything to promote and preserve it. This is the language our school children should be learning at school !
Well as a second language and should not be funded much, its a dead language. You are just preserving something that is not needed. I would rather teach them chinese, japanese or hindi because there are BILLIONS of people who speek those languages. Only 65 thousand speek gaelic.
@TheOneToxic and,.....your point? if there is one person holding a language that means something---and people expresss themselves in different languages. gaelic for sure.
@TheOneToxic You are correct that School children should be learning a language with a large number of speakers but in terms of Scotland, i think our kids should be learning Scottish Gaelic to preserve a very important part of our culture and history which to you may seem pointless but to a lot of people in Scotland is actually something they are extremely proud of and determined to promote and preserve!
How do you feel about mass immigration to the very land that is a fundamental part of the Scottish heritage? Asians, Africans and the like, are they “New Scots” and an equal and integral part of the Scottish history the Scottish future is based upon? Or do you feel the immigrants are displacing the very foundation of the Scottish heritage? Do you feel it is a paradox to preserve Scottish culture and history while receiving immigrants en mass?
@Dovenpeis Myself and i do believe i'm speaking for the majority of Scots welcome anyone on earth that chooses to come and settle and build a life for themselves in our country. As long as those people contribute to our society and all work together to make Scotland a better and more prosperous place to live then i have no problem whatsoever with immigration to Scotland. It's not about where you come from, it's about where we go as a country together as one.
@Jadervason That's why i am happy with the SNP Scottish Government. They are proud of our heritage and promoting and keeping it alive. I hardly think the Conservative government in Westminster cares all that much about Scottish Gaelic or even Scotland for that matter.
@glasgow1234 Don't you think your children would be better off speaking english? Afterall, we live in a world where you can communicate with english practically everywhere you go, there are exceptions of course. But imagine you children don't speak english, but want to study in America or England. No one speaks Gaelic there, there screwed.
@diiebane Yes of course, i agree. I never said i want our kids to be taught only Gaelic. There are hundreds of countries in the world where their schools teach their native languages alongside english. So yes, our kids should be taught both. Gaelic to communicate at home and keep our culture alive and English as an international language to speak abroad.
sounds like Gaelic (pronounced with an "a" like "plan", not an "a" like "plane" by the way) to me. Doesn't sound all that much like any other languages apart from Irish & Manx.
@codnationdotnet well, folk in the Western Isles speak Gaelic while folk in the Northern Isles (Sheltand & Orkney) speak Scots or English, like us folk from the Mainland.
@codnationdotnet - You clearly know NOTHING about Scotland.100k people speak Gaidhlig in Scotland and there are plenty Gaelic medium schools darted around the country- even Glasgow and Edinburgh. The BBC ALBA channel is a pan Scotland channel and caters for English speaker too. Every year a two week BBC televised Gaelic Mod takes place showcasing the language and culture, and in the summer over 100 highland games events. But you have never heard it . How can you call yourself Scottish ?
@tannalv The Picts, who would later be influenced heavily by the Gaels and Norse were in Scotland well before the Germanic Angols. To be clear even the Romans could do absolutely nothing to control them. So they built a wall.
@MsOneiroi77 Why shouldn't you say that the Scots are English? Because, in my experience, you get fucking battered because of it. Not saying it's right, but last time I checked we generally don't like being called English. Then again, the folk living in the Borders don't seem to mind folk making that honest mistake. Then again, they were the only folk in Scotland who voted Tory...
@LaFemmeMorte no your comment was "(We're far, far closer to the Irish.) Never say that in a pub in Scotland, by the way." and I would like to say to you what pub and where? We are related to the English and Irish, be we Borderer, Highland and Islander and central belt. its a fact we are closer to the English and Irish as opposed to the Dutch or Germans.
@LaFemmeMorte Our heritage is a good mixture of Irish (where we get Gaelic from), Viking (Orkney & Shetland especially), Anglo Saxon (ever heard of Scots? - it's a Germanic language descended from Old English & is closely-related to Modern English) & to a lesser extent French (Bruce is a Norman name for example) & Flemish (the Scottish surname Fleming indicates ancestry from Flanders). Oh, I nearly forgot - there's the Picts as well, but no one seems to know very much about them. We don't even
@LaFemmeMorte know what language they spoke. With regard to the Borders - there's quite a few middle class English people who've bought houses there, so maybe that's part of the reason the only Scottish Tory MP represents a Borders constituency.
@LaFemmeMorte It's pretty much only with the surname Fleming who're descended from Flemings, I think. Where I was brought (South East Scotland) up a form of English (or Scots) has been spoken for just about as long as Gaelic's been spoken in the Western Highlands & Islands. South East Scotland used to be part of the Anglo Saxon kingdom of Northumbria, before it was annexed by one of the Kings of Alba (Scotland). Might've been a Malcolm, I'm not too sure. Before that, the Britons
@robsargent4 Wrong - There are plenty of Scottish surnames deriving from Flemish traders , including Jardines, Melvilles, Lamberts, Gemmills etc . It is true though that those in the Lothians were not ethnic Scots,Britons, Pict's or Viking ,rather more like Northumbrian Angles.
@AlbaSiar Then I guess a majority of Scots are not scots, since a majority of scots are descended from english fleeing the war of the barons a thousand years ago
You fucking moron
I love that scots think they're a single people with a glorious history, it's funny because you have morons wearing kilts with the scottish flag running around. All of your retarded nationalism comes from the movie Braveheart. Your nation is an American fiction.
@gevanamataka Show some decorum man, you are lowering the tone of the debate here. I shall ignore you in the future. As we say in Scottish Gaelic : Is i chuileag bhuidhe bhuachair as àirde srann. The yellow dung-fly makes the loudest hum.
@gevanamataka Wow, only mongols think that Scotland is made up of people purely of Scottish origin. All people that live here are Scottish now (as they have a permanent residence in Scotland), but quite a vast majority were from another country before they came here.
@naedanger123 Well actually, most Scots are Caledonian Pict by far and large, as the 'OGAP4' code proved over 12 years of research (1996~2008), so anybody born native to Scotland with any degree of Scottish kin is very likely to have some Caledonian Pict in them, but yes there are other Scots as well, everybody born in Scotland is a Scot regardless. You are a Scottish national regardless and that is all that it takes to be a Scot in reality, born and bred native.
@gevanamataka "Morons wearing kilts with the scottish flag" ? Are you on some sort of pills or some shit? That sounds like Scotland fans at a Scottish football match, or a rugby match, or Nationalists out on parade. Shut up, our Nation is more than 1,000 years older than the United States.
@puberis The act of union of 1707 is a political construct union, so nobody is under any body's thumb, Great Britain (GB) is a 1707 political construct, it was created by Scotland and England, the United Kingdom (UK) is a monarchy union which pre-dates the political construct of GB, it is older than GB by 104 years and was formed in 1603 after King James VI of Scots took over the English throne.
@segano1 It was a joke, but whatever helps you sleep at night. You say you hate Yanks because they spout off about Europe when it's not their business? Same could be said for European pricks who do the same about us. I'd hate for you to be a hypocrite. One could say older countries mean more sterile countries too. Scottish culture isn't taking the world by storm, American culture is. Being older doesn't give you any authority to say what is and isn't about another country.
@gevanamataka And I don't think a Yank like you has any room to talk when you are an American ROFL! Fuck sake, I've been in pubs older than the whole of the USA LMFAO!
@Tessmage That makes no sense what so ever, the differences are vast, Americans are ex-colonists who blame their masters for everything even their own existence.
If it wasn't for Great Britain, the USA would never exist, but unfortunately it happened, so we just have to accept it and move on. Yanks should stop sticking their noses into other nations businesses and being the biggest forms of hypocrisy and contradictions in the world and go their own way now that we've cut their little strings.
@segano1 Someone's a tad bitter, eh? The Americans haven't done anything to you. Maybe our leaders have, but see there's a thing you have to learn about the world. The actions of George W Bush DO NOT and WILL NOT reprisent the entire US. I live in a state bigger than your whole island. But does that matter? Then why should age?
this is an easy one, translation= its raining, all the time
jmoney31705 6 hours ago
Understood a bit of that.... And I speak Irish.
teachill 9 hours ago
Was the mouse pointer from your computer or on the TV?
sharperguy 16 hours ago
she looks nice.
meadowlane37 19 hours ago
sounds Icelandic to me
kantastisk 1 day ago
English is better
underdog111111111111 1 day ago
In summary: it's raining and it's cold.
domh 1 day ago
what the hell is that
zam120 2 days ago
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How many Scots does it take to change a lightbulb?
None - they sit in the dark and blame the English.
karezza6 2 days ago
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MrFukov85 2 days ago
FUCKING A !!!
iohgyy 3 days ago 2
it sounds like finland
nikoskaragiosis1 3 days ago
scottish gaelic= celtic language.
germanic language=norwegian, icelandic, english, frisian etc.some of which may sound similar or exist in the same place as gaelic-irish gaelic sounds very similar! but don't actually have anything in common at all. the interaction was only a few slaves taken by the vikings to iceland, and pretty much old norse hasn't changed much (its almost icelandic) so there's little chance of it being germanic..old english influence yes a little, but not much
jorgepeterbarton 3 days ago
WTF? Is this the weather report for Middle Earth?
jimgravesus 3 days ago 15
@jimgravesus Yes.
LarryC213 1 day ago
WTF? Is this the weather report for Middle Earth?
jimgravesus 3 days ago
so does anyone know why they are claiming this as a germanic language nowadays? Because listening to this, I think it's a pretty ridiculous assertion.
12hiddendragons 3 days ago
@12hiddendragons Who's calling it a Germanic language? Celtic languages are Indo-European but definitely not Germanic. They have certain features that set them way apart from Germanic.
sazji 2 days ago
@sazji Well, I was a little confused there...I heard someone saying that the Scottish language was germanic, and since this is the only scottish language there is, I was watching this and scratching my head because it is clearly not germanic at all.
Actually, what they meant was that the Scots dialect of english is supposedly germanic, which is kind of odd since it can mostly be understood by an english speaker.
12hiddendragons 2 days ago
@12hiddendragons Ah, got it. Actually English is a Germanic language; in the Anglo-Saxon branch. It's got lots in common with German actually, and even more with Dutch and Frisian. If you go back to Chaucer's English it's even more obvious. Ex. German "Das ist nicht gut," Dutch "Dat is niet goed," English That is not good. Some Scottish English does preserve some older words like "ken" to know (German "kennen"); also "kirk" (Dutch "kerk," German "Kirche") for church, etc.
sazji 1 day ago
@sazji thanks. I was actually wondering about that.
12hiddendragons 16 hours ago
@sazji since you seem to be more knowledgeable than most of the tards around youtube, I was curious...exactly how common is Gaelic in Scotland? I'm just curious as to about how many people speak it. I know I could look up statistics, but those arent always trustworthy.
12hiddendragons 16 hours ago
Sounds like Turkish. :)))
admirahongos 3 days ago
@admirahongos Eh, not really. gPgX9DtgEz8
sazji 1 day ago
English is a Germanic, Nordic in origin language with non-saxon Briton mixed in ie Welsh and Gaelic Scots. The Scottish, Welsh and Irish languages are unique to the British Isles. English is pollution from the European mainland.
PlumpChikn 3 days ago
oh what a wonderful sounding language!!! I am from Colombia and it sounds to me like a Nordic language.... cheers!
TheYaom 4 days ago
@TheYaom
As a native speaker of a nordic language (danish), I can say that it is completely incomprehensible to me. English er far closer related to the nordic languages that gaelic.
danielschledermann 3 days ago
Sounds like Al-Jazeera. ^^
Silencer878 4 days ago
HER embarrassing American ignorance, thank you very much! :-) And New York needs Texas a lot more than we need you. On point...wonderfully entertaining video; sounds to me like someone from Norway, actually.
evandergeld 5 days ago
fascinating stuff for english speakers, i cant even make out a snip of it but its part of the langauge history. Thanks to OP :D
wildh0rse 5 days ago
Please excuse EVANDERGELD for his embarrassing American ignorance. We New Yorkers barely comprehend TEXANS. Agreed, it is such a beautiful language.If only my age and aptitude allowed me to master such diverse languages.
papichulo2534 6 days ago
@papichulo2534 No age is too old for language learning. All of the stuff about 'after a certain age you can no longer learn a new language' is crap. Absolutely and utterly. There are some very well-reknowned programs out there for learning Scots Gaelic- some of which are online using things like Skype to connect, breaking down any geographical barriers. You could totally do it :)
EmilyEmilyIris 5 days ago
@papichulo2534 Hey, if English was good enuf fer our Lord Jesus Christ, it's good enuf fer me! (-Miriam Ferguson, first female governor of Texas, 1924) ;)
sazji 3 days ago
@sazji hahaha legendary! simply epic!
emperorkk 2 days ago
@emperorkk She probably didn't actually say it; it seems the line had been around in different forms even before it was attributed to her. It's been attributed to various conservative southern politicians to show them as bumpkins, so I should be fair and avoid the northern stereotypes. :) I wonder, can an Irish speaker understand her? Half? 75% of what she's saying?
sazji 2 days ago
beautiful language........
dutchlover2012 6 days ago
''Dihaoine'' is friday i would guess. in irish friday is '''Aoine'' or ''Dé hAoine''. take that GERMANIC languages!!!
ps3man76 6 days ago
How can you "dislike" a bloody weather report?!? You might not find it interesting (or have a clue what it's about), but actually dislike? WTH??
pipertripp 6 days ago
@pipertripp On the other hand there's plenty to dislike about you
scamwa 5 days ago
@scamwa knock yourself out.
pipertripp 5 days ago
@pipertripp fuck your mother
scamwa 4 days ago
What is hell is this? New Yorkers sound more clear to us here in Texas than this blather.
evandergeld 1 week ago
@evandergeld That is because she is SPEAKING ANOTHER LANGUAGE!
snekcid98 6 days ago
@evandergeld This is Gaelic, Scots Gaelic, a language everyone should hope to learn, it's one of the languages that along with the other Gaelic and Celtic and Scandinavian languages that can just captivate you upon hearing it.
Artognou 6 days ago
Gaelic guys, gaelic, hardly anyone actually talks like that, the majority of us speak English!
LovingLullaby 1 week ago
Do many people speak this fluently in Scotland ? I can make out a load of words, it's very close to Irish.
okee9 1 week ago
@okee9
Not many, mostly in the Highlands and Islands, but it is making a bit of a comeback.
Scots and Irish Gaelic have common ancestry, lot of common history as well. It is just over the water, which was quicker to travel to than by land. Just over the many many years theyv taken different paths so you get differences.
johnnycarrotheid 6 days ago
Bretagne also.Although there are very few diwan teachers.Its another branch of celtic languages only it is grounded in regional French.All those dialects will disappear completely in 100 years max anyway.They will go the same way many did because of homogenization of languages.
cannoir 5 days ago
Or maybe Yiddish....
carlhopkinson 1 week ago
Sounds vaguely like German to me....
carlhopkinson 1 week ago
@carlhopkinson Are you joking? I'm German and Arabic sounds more familiar than this...
123horror 1 week ago
What the fudge?!
Completely1337 1 week ago
на татарский смахивает :D
allxunder1 1 week ago
@diiebane Well, if they're growing up in the Scottish Lowlands then they will already speak English anyway, they would then be learning Gaelic at school. Unless I'm out of date then French is the currently compulsory second language in Scottish schools, with German and Spanish available later on.
Languages are very poorly taught in British schools anyway if attainment levels are anything to go by and children would perhaps be more motivated to learn an ancestral language than a random one.
Injektilo7 1 week ago
There are some fine factual history books around,Sweiland75,which should give you a rather more accurate idea than Mel Gibson as to British and American history.
frglee 1 week ago
I'm a black scottish cyclops.
ZiemniakEnterprise 1 week ago
Beautiful language. Hearing it makes you realize how the Sotts got their English accent. It's obviously influenced by Gaelic.
aoj2108 1 week ago 9
@aoj2108 only 1.2-1.5% of Scots can speak Gaelic. Scots, which is a germanic language similar to English is what is traditionally spoken in lowland parts of Scotland (borders, central and up the east coast). Gaelic is only spoken in parts of the Western Isles and parts of the islands.
purenectar 2 days ago
@purenectar ............And in communities rife with incest.
OfficialRJLextro 1 day ago
@OfficialRJLextro What an intelligent comment...You must have some wit.
purenectar 1 day ago
@purenectar Its dead true though, don't deny it.
OfficialRJLextro 1 day ago
@OfficialRJLextro I've never come across an inbred person in Scotland. Perhaps you get your kicks from posting ignorant comments and disrespecting any culture or language which you're unfamiliar with. You could apply the whole incest thing to any rural setting, anywhere in the world.
purenectar 1 day ago
@purenectar You've never come across an imbred person because you've never been to a small community rife with incest. And if you have, i think they keep them in the basement. You really need to lighten up, get a sense of humour.
OfficialRJLextro 1 day ago
@OfficialRJLextro Not down in Tasmania! They run wild in the hills!
MegaMonkeyExtreme 22 hours ago
@MegaMonkeyExtreme Hahahahaha!
OfficialRJLextro 22 hours ago
I adore Scottish Gaelic, and i'm an American. I really would love to be able to learn the language and beable to meet someone who speaks it!
VandyTheMissingLinK 1 week ago 2
Is this this even English ?
TheCuteprincesss 1 week ago
@TheCuteprincesss ... it's Gaelic, a completely different and very old celtic language spoken in northern Scotland and (a variation) in Ireland. Other celtic languages spoken are Welsh, Manx, Cornish and Breton.
dcanmore 1 week ago
People still speak this?
mamc1986 1 week ago
@mamc1986 Obviously if BBC feels the need to broadcast weather reports in the language!
bradcasali 1 week ago
CYMRU AM BYTH :)
WelshFanaticxoxo 1 week ago
I dont see why it needs to be learnt as such, It serves no purpose in the modern world and time learnt for a language that is very loaclized could be used for real life skills like money management to get this countey sorted. I dont disown the language aswell as Welsh but really it should be a hobbiest / club thing rather then something compulsary.
R33Racer 1 week ago
@R33Racer I'm sure those Gaels who learned it as their first language agree with you, as do those pissed off at seeing the last remnants their culture continue to die. Being told that they should learn the language of the culture that caused this instead won't rub any salt in the wound either...
Angdharagh 1 week ago
@Angdharagh Shit chages over time, get used to it. Your probably the sort of person who would rather still use a horse over a car. Do yourself a favor and get a grip.
R33Racer 1 week ago
@R33Racer Ironic; the advocate for English can't use it correctly. Saor Alba, dickhead.
Angdharagh 1 week ago
@Angdharagh Bullshit, nothing wrong with my gramma in the last comment. It's a fucking opinion, if you got a problem with it keep it to yourself, especially if your not going to make a valid point. Someone fucked up bad whrn they decided not to abort you poor excuse of a human being.
R33Racer 1 week ago
@R33Racer Yeah? Run your posts through a fucking spellcheck; it disagrees.
The only point you've made so far is that you're a patronising, hypocritical, ethnocentric piece of shit with an over inflated ego.
I might be a poor excuse for a human being but at least I bear a passing resemblance, you illiterate piece of disingenuous scum.
Angdharagh 1 week ago
@Angdharagh I am more of a human then some YouTube replying twatbag will ever be. I was clearly being kind saying you was a poor excuse, maybe I just wasn't honest enough? Anyway say what the fuck you want i'm not going to take up my time to reply or view your idiotic bullshit, come to think of it i'll just put you on block/ignore so don't waste your pathetic life. Learn to tell the difference between your bollocks and your mouth if you want to actually show you have a fucking brain.
R33Racer 1 week ago
@R33Racer I accept your surrender.
Angdharagh 1 week ago
och aye and whatever.... she sounds like Sean Connery when he has had too much single malt inside him.
Och aye.......
zoot3zz 1 week ago
Today, rain. Tomorrow, rain. Tuesday, rain. rain rain rain rain
Welcome to scotland
Blonguin 1 week ago
@joppsta360 you're probably a mongrel bastard
joecugo 2 weeks ago
@joecugo My roots are 50/50 Scandinavian/Scottish and I was born before marriage so you're right... but that doesn't actually counter my argument at all and is frankly childish. At least you used proper Grammar I guess... could've made the effort to capitalise and full stop though.
Joppsta360 1 week ago
There is no point ... at all ... to learning Gaelic. Sorry but I'm all for preserving national pride but some things are outdated. Internationally English is the most spoken language if we do not count chinese (because they are the largest populace...). I think that it is more important to learn English than Gaelic. Scottish pride .. yeah .. whatever. Sorry but .. I just don't get it.
Modern society has no place for culture, culture is not important anymore in my opinion.
Joppsta360 2 weeks ago
@Joppsta360 Actually, Spanish is the most spoken language -_-
Break2beCool 1 week ago
@Break2beCool Hm, yeah, you're right. Spanish also suffers from breeding syndrome though, same as the Chinese... just on a smaller scale :P
Fact is, the worldwide "universal language" that everyone learns is English.. because of the USA. Why would be essentially cripple ourselves with one language when we can just focus on one and be a master of that? Fact is, if you learned Gaelic, it's practically useless unless you go to Northern Scotland.
Oh and... I did Higher German and got an A FYI.
Joppsta360 1 week ago
@Break2beCool
No, if you simply refer to native speakers, Chinese is a larger language than Spanish. However, if you include the number of people sufficient in a particular language, English is by far the largest language in the world thanks to the legacy of the British Empire.
Dovenpeis 1 week ago
Did she say "Ba-donka-donk"?
tweekyseagull 2 weeks ago
@amutinyinheaven - you're right, it is still technically a Germanic language. However, the influence of Latin and French have completely changed the structure and vocabulary so that it has almost no relationship to German. That's all I meant by the "was". Lol back at ya!
ubbno1 2 weeks ago
Sounds a little like arabic ;)
coJestMustangi 2 weeks ago
SPEAK GAELIC YOU JOCK CUNTS...WHY U SPEAKING ENGLISH? ARE U SLAVES OF ENGLISHMEN?...DISGRACE U ARE GINGER OBESE JOCKS....
PAKETEMON 2 weeks ago
@PAKETEMON Sorry but we do not take opinions from people living in third world countries.
truefalse 2 weeks ago
@PAKETEMON we froma thier world country...but at least we ain't slaves...if the queen say jump u go and jump..fat disaster jocktwats
PAKETEMON 2 weeks ago
Sounds like the weather man (lady?) got karate chopped in the throat.
Rereversed 2 weeks ago
Must have been recorded in summer by the looks of it... ;)
jkrmcguire 2 weeks ago
its so like your cousins in ireland sounds almost the same as irish, its so important for scotland to be proud of its native culture and protect all that was before ,this clearly shows these waters should renamed the celt isles after all for what is most beautiful in writings and art extra comes from celt countrys and when history is revisted its so clear the common ways of life in art and culture how a like we truely are SLAN AGUS BEANNACHT
ultanbeare 2 weeks ago
Wonderful lenguage
waldi473 2 weeks ago 3
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Too bad SNP TRAITORS only care about ISLAM FESTIVALS and DIVERSITY and MORE IMMIGRATION. Fucking assholes are no better than nation wrecking Labour. All you have to have to do is look at England and see how shitty multiculturalism is. We should be preserving and trying to save this language. Kick SNP out and get a real nationalist party in.
JesusDiedROFL 2 weeks ago
LOL thats almost dutch. no diffrence in the general sound at all.
swunt10 2 weeks ago
@ polishranger - Gaelic is NOT German based - it is a Celtic language. The Celts predate the Germans in Europe. English was originally a Germanic language.
ubbno1 2 weeks ago
@ubbno1 "was originally a Germanic language"? Uhh pretty sure English still is in the Germanic family. Lol
amutinyinheaven 2 weeks ago
@ubbno1
S/he's referring to Lowland Scots, which IS a Germanic language closely related to English. Gaelic has little influence on everyday Scottish English.
ajoajoajoaj 2 weeks ago
wow, scots gaelic must be a difficult language. look how long it's taking her say RAIN.
polishranger 2 weeks ago 2
As an American, I'm used to hearing Scottish accents portrayed by eccentric comedic characters on TV or in movies. But hearing the language it actually comes from brings it a lot of dignity and beauty. It really is a lovely language.
GeoVII 3 weeks ago
@GeoVII and you are a typical american (no offense intended). people who's scottish accent you usually hear are not gealic speakers but native english speakers. that english spoken in scotland is heavily influenced by scot a germanic language once spoken in parts of scotland. look up scot lanugage on wiki and see what i'm talking about.
polishranger 2 weeks ago
sounds a bit like virish we use some of the same words
TheGleeson1987 3 weeks ago
oh man I really like these languages (Welsh is interesting for me as well) They are so ancient and mysterious like our Hungarian language. :)
bigsajt 3 weeks ago 2
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@ Dubzoomember, it's just gaelige with a funny accent ;-)
hiluxfinto 3 weeks ago
and she's a fair young lassie too!
tcoreyb 3 weeks ago
Strange, First time hearing this language spoken at length, and to my untrained ear, for some reason, it sounds "Middle Eastern-y" to me
Gabagabe1 3 weeks ago
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Scots Gaelic is a dead language that is being propped up artificially - like African big game and Australian aboriginal villages. All part of the false western heritage industry. Assimilation and globalisation is the way forward
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MammaKristina 3 weeks ago
Awesome!!
WillyT3117 3 weeks ago 2
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sounds like Russian to me.
suthrnlad 4 weeks ago
I'm a lowlander Scot and have always been fascinated by the Gaelic language my fellow Scots to the north speak. I've already started learning the basics and hope one day to speak it fluently. What a stunning language it is and i'm glad the Scottish Government are doing everything to promote and preserve it. This is the language our school children should be learning at school !
glasgow1234 4 weeks ago 42
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Well as a second language and should not be funded much, its a dead language. You are just preserving something that is not needed. I would rather teach them chinese, japanese or hindi because there are BILLIONS of people who speek those languages. Only 65 thousand speek gaelic.
TheOneToxic 3 weeks ago
@TheOneToxic and,.....your point? if there is one person holding a language that means something---and people expresss themselves in different languages. gaelic for sure.
windstorm1000 3 weeks ago
@TheOneToxic You are correct that School children should be learning a language with a large number of speakers but in terms of Scotland, i think our kids should be learning Scottish Gaelic to preserve a very important part of our culture and history which to you may seem pointless but to a lot of people in Scotland is actually something they are extremely proud of and determined to promote and preserve!
glasgow1234 3 weeks ago 20
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How do you feel about mass immigration to the very land that is a fundamental part of the Scottish heritage? Asians, Africans and the like, are they “New Scots” and an equal and integral part of the Scottish history the Scottish future is based upon? Or do you feel the immigrants are displacing the very foundation of the Scottish heritage? Do you feel it is a paradox to preserve Scottish culture and history while receiving immigrants en mass?
Dovenpeis 2 weeks ago
@Dovenpeis Myself and i do believe i'm speaking for the majority of Scots welcome anyone on earth that chooses to come and settle and build a life for themselves in our country. As long as those people contribute to our society and all work together to make Scotland a better and more prosperous place to live then i have no problem whatsoever with immigration to Scotland. It's not about where you come from, it's about where we go as a country together as one.
glasgow1234 2 weeks ago
@glasgow1234
If it is not about where you come from, then preserving Scottish culture and history has no meaning what so ever. You are speaking with two tongues.
Dovenpeis 2 weeks ago
@glasgow1234 Dude i'm a Teenager and learning a different language is the last thing teens and children wanna do.
lukedabomb123 2 weeks ago
@glasgow1234 if you don't preserve it, who will? Don't let it fade away
Jadervason 1 week ago
@Jadervason That's why i am happy with the SNP Scottish Government. They are proud of our heritage and promoting and keeping it alive. I hardly think the Conservative government in Westminster cares all that much about Scottish Gaelic or even Scotland for that matter.
glasgow1234 1 week ago
@glasgow1234
Yes, if we let indigenous cultures die, for the sake of haste and convenience, we'll be letting the imperialists win.
Jcolinsol 1 week ago
@glasgow1234 Don't you think your children would be better off speaking english? Afterall, we live in a world where you can communicate with english practically everywhere you go, there are exceptions of course. But imagine you children don't speak english, but want to study in America or England. No one speaks Gaelic there, there screwed.
diiebane 1 week ago
@diiebane Yes of course, i agree. I never said i want our kids to be taught only Gaelic. There are hundreds of countries in the world where their schools teach their native languages alongside english. So yes, our kids should be taught both. Gaelic to communicate at home and keep our culture alive and English as an international language to speak abroad.
glasgow1234 1 week ago
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if you play it in reverse it becomes english
Febrezefreshness 4 weeks ago
She's fit.
cjdabj 4 weeks ago
sounds closer to scandinavian or dutch or something..
minimalist34 1 month ago
I wated to watch this to see if I could understand it because I speak Irish. Erm... I get the gist of it but not much else.
Dubzoomember 1 month ago
Real Scottish-as-shit chicks are hot as SHIT. Especially when they wear ALL PLAID.
floofytown 1 month ago
@floofytown
oye i know man ^^
exoskeletonsz 1 month ago
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Wth is this?! Is that even a language?
MrSoldierperson 1 month ago
Wow, didn´t know this even existed.
da44e 1 month ago
Lovely language wish i knew some of it :(
Trueblood030 1 month ago
this s english or what ??????
bantalhahamodii 1 month ago
How many people speak Scots Gaelic?
hansjalv 1 month ago
sounds like Gaelic (pronounced with an "a" like "plan", not an "a" like "plane" by the way) to me. Doesn't sound all that much like any other languages apart from Irish & Manx.
robsargent4 1 month ago
ee i understood this much: 0
Pathrissia 1 month ago
Sounds like swedish mixed with dutch.
fdesouchecom 1 month ago
@fdesouchecom nah (i speak swedish), id say it sounds like faroese mix with turkish and dutch
Pathrissia 1 month ago
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i'm Scottish, lived here all my life (from Fife) and noeone I know or have ever met IN SCOTLAND speaks Gaelic...
The only places that still speak Gaelic are some remote islands off the northern coast of Scotland, i've seen documentaries.
Everyone from Mainland Scotland speaks English :/
BBC Alba is a channel for those gaelic speaking communities I think :)
codnationdotnet 1 month ago
@codnationdotnet well, folk in the Western Isles speak Gaelic while folk in the Northern Isles (Sheltand & Orkney) speak Scots or English, like us folk from the Mainland.
robsargent4 1 month ago
@codnationdotnet - You clearly know NOTHING about Scotland.100k people speak Gaidhlig in Scotland and there are plenty Gaelic medium schools darted around the country- even Glasgow and Edinburgh. The BBC ALBA channel is a pan Scotland channel and caters for English speaker too. Every year a two week BBC televised Gaelic Mod takes place showcasing the language and culture, and in the summer over 100 highland games events. But you have never heard it . How can you call yourself Scottish ?
AlbaSiar 1 month ago
I thought the scots were English? Obviously not...
tannalv 1 month ago
@tannalv Most of them speak English now, but Scot Gaelic is their ancestral language!
yellowskittles93 1 month ago
@tannalv The Picts, who would later be influenced heavily by the Gaels and Norse were in Scotland well before the Germanic Angols. To be clear even the Romans could do absolutely nothing to control them. So they built a wall.
entproducer 1 month ago
@tannalv We SPEAK English as a primary language but we do not share the same heritage as the English. We're far, far closer to the Irish.
Never say that in a pub in Scotland, by the way.
LaFemmeMorte 1 month ago
@LaFemmeMorte why not I've said that and they've agreed.
MsOneiroi77 1 month ago
@MsOneiroi77 Why shouldn't you say that the Scots are English? Because, in my experience, you get fucking battered because of it. Not saying it's right, but last time I checked we generally don't like being called English. Then again, the folk living in the Borders don't seem to mind folk making that honest mistake. Then again, they were the only folk in Scotland who voted Tory...
LaFemmeMorte 1 month ago
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@LaFemmeMorte no your comment was "(We're far, far closer to the Irish.) Never say that in a pub in Scotland, by the way." and I would like to say to you what pub and where? We are related to the English and Irish, be we Borderer, Highland and Islander and central belt. its a fact we are closer to the English and Irish as opposed to the Dutch or Germans.
MsOneiroi77 1 month ago
@MsOneiroi77 o_O That's not what I meant. We know we're closely related to the Irish.
LaFemmeMorte 1 month ago
@LaFemmeMorte Our heritage is a good mixture of Irish (where we get Gaelic from), Viking (Orkney & Shetland especially), Anglo Saxon (ever heard of Scots? - it's a Germanic language descended from Old English & is closely-related to Modern English) & to a lesser extent French (Bruce is a Norman name for example) & Flemish (the Scottish surname Fleming indicates ancestry from Flanders). Oh, I nearly forgot - there's the Picts as well, but no one seems to know very much about them. We don't even
robsargent4 1 month ago
@LaFemmeMorte know what language they spoke. With regard to the Borders - there's quite a few middle class English people who've bought houses there, so maybe that's part of the reason the only Scottish Tory MP represents a Borders constituency.
robsargent4 1 month ago
@robsargent4 I always thought that the reason we speak English is because of their constant invading?
Flemish? Hadn't realised.
LaFemmeMorte 1 month ago
@LaFemmeMorte It's pretty much only with the surname Fleming who're descended from Flemings, I think. Where I was brought (South East Scotland) up a form of English (or Scots) has been spoken for just about as long as Gaelic's been spoken in the Western Highlands & Islands. South East Scotland used to be part of the Anglo Saxon kingdom of Northumbria, before it was annexed by one of the Kings of Alba (Scotland). Might've been a Malcolm, I'm not too sure. Before that, the Britons
robsargent4 1 month ago
@robsargent4 Wrong - There are plenty of Scottish surnames deriving from Flemish traders , including Jardines, Melvilles, Lamberts, Gemmills etc . It is true though that those in the Lothians were not ethnic Scots,Britons, Pict's or Viking ,rather more like Northumbrian Angles.
AlbaSiar 1 month ago
@AlbaSiar hmm, didn't know that...thanks for the correction. You learn something new every day!
robsargent4 1 month ago
@AlbaSiar Then I guess a majority of Scots are not scots, since a majority of scots are descended from english fleeing the war of the barons a thousand years ago
You fucking moron
I love that scots think they're a single people with a glorious history, it's funny because you have morons wearing kilts with the scottish flag running around. All of your retarded nationalism comes from the movie Braveheart. Your nation is an American fiction.
gevanamataka 1 month ago
@gevanamataka Show some decorum man, you are lowering the tone of the debate here. I shall ignore you in the future. As we say in Scottish Gaelic : Is i chuileag bhuidhe bhuachair as àirde srann. The yellow dung-fly makes the loudest hum.
AlbaSiar 1 month ago
@gevanamataka Wow, only mongols think that Scotland is made up of people purely of Scottish origin. All people that live here are Scottish now (as they have a permanent residence in Scotland), but quite a vast majority were from another country before they came here.
naedanger123 1 month ago
@naedanger123 Well actually, most Scots are Caledonian Pict by far and large, as the 'OGAP4' code proved over 12 years of research (1996~2008), so anybody born native to Scotland with any degree of Scottish kin is very likely to have some Caledonian Pict in them, but yes there are other Scots as well, everybody born in Scotland is a Scot regardless. You are a Scottish national regardless and that is all that it takes to be a Scot in reality, born and bred native.
segano1 1 month ago
@gevanamataka "Morons wearing kilts with the scottish flag" ? Are you on some sort of pills or some shit? That sounds like Scotland fans at a Scottish football match, or a rugby match, or Nationalists out on parade. Shut up, our Nation is more than 1,000 years older than the United States.
truefalse 1 month ago
@truefalse Yeah, but after only a hundred years we had the strength to break away from the English. You're still under their thumb! Hah! :P
Hey, it's just a joke! I like Scotland.
puberis 1 month ago
@puberis The act of union of 1707 is a political construct union, so nobody is under any body's thumb, Great Britain (GB) is a 1707 political construct, it was created by Scotland and England, the United Kingdom (UK) is a monarchy union which pre-dates the political construct of GB, it is older than GB by 104 years and was formed in 1603 after King James VI of Scots took over the English throne.
segano1 1 month ago
@segano1 It was a joke, but whatever helps you sleep at night. You say you hate Yanks because they spout off about Europe when it's not their business? Same could be said for European pricks who do the same about us. I'd hate for you to be a hypocrite. One could say older countries mean more sterile countries too. Scottish culture isn't taking the world by storm, American culture is. Being older doesn't give you any authority to say what is and isn't about another country.
puberis 1 month ago
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You're a sad, angry man. I'm sorry you have to live like this.
MarvellousMuffin 1 month ago
@gevanamataka 'ALBA' is the name of the Pictish kingdom you tit, it's even recorded in the Irish chronicles 'Annals of the four masters' - read that.
All Scots are Scots, the people from Scotland are Scottish, the clue is in the name of the country you dumb cunt.
Scotland's always had nationalism long long before Braveheart, it's the Yankees who go around with thinking it's all kilts etc.
segano1 1 month ago
@gevanamataka And I don't think a Yank like you has any room to talk when you are an American ROFL! Fuck sake, I've been in pubs older than the whole of the USA LMFAO!
segano1 1 month ago
@segano1
Do you know what the biggest difference is between Americans and Brits..?
Americans don't suck America's cock.
Tessmage 1 month ago
@Tessmage are you sure? lol 'cus it sure sounds like it
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@Tessmage That makes no sense what so ever, the differences are vast, Americans are ex-colonists who blame their masters for everything even their own existence.
If it wasn't for Great Britain, the USA would never exist, but unfortunately it happened, so we just have to accept it and move on. Yanks should stop sticking their noses into other nations businesses and being the biggest forms of hypocrisy and contradictions in the world and go their own way now that we've cut their little strings.
segano1 1 month ago
@segano1 Someone's a tad bitter, eh? The Americans haven't done anything to you. Maybe our leaders have, but see there's a thing you have to learn about the world. The actions of George W Bush DO NOT and WILL NOT reprisent the entire US. I live in a state bigger than your whole island. But does that matter? Then why should age?
uiruu 1 month ago