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  • Couldn't understand a single word.

  • sooooo gay

  • Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig ar chlann mhór dhomhanda na nGael, sa n, agus tá tús á chur anois le ré nua

  • Is it me, or does she have a thick English accent?

  • It's like listening to Old English - I feel like I SHOULD understand it, but I don't.

  • It kinda sounds like a tape being played backwards.

    I love it, though.

    (^__^)

  • Sounds sort of Arabic

  • @slurpos Arabic? Fuck that, it sounds like Dutch.

  • This sounds a lot like Faroese, I wonder if my Icelandic sounds anything like this. Icelandic and English used to be the same language a thousand years ago, and hearing Gaelic I can't but think how much it sounds like the languages spoken in the Nordic countries (Scandinavia).

  • It sounds like someone speaking backwards. It's beautiful & trippy all at once.

  • Chaithfidh me a ra, Nil an ceacht seo go maith. Ce duirt leat a bheidh an muinteoir? Caithfidh tu do ceachteanna a dheanamh. Njl chuala me aon rud anseo ach an preachan. A duirt mo dhearthair "An gcloiseann tu e sin?"

  • Dear Nomadic Born Again Pagan Celts of the Free World, lets celebrate (((March 17th))) as (((Celtic Pagan Liberation Day))), Wear all Green if you a Proud to be a Born Again Pagan Celt!

  • The Druid Government of Gaul has spoken the Brehon Laws in Gaelic since the Ice Age, which is linguistically much older than the Hebrew that Adam and Eve have spoken in their Foreign Mythology. A HAND CARVED IVORY WOOLLY MAMMOTH which has just been found in Ancient Gaul has been carbon dated to be 35,000 years old. Modern Druids who do not study Gaelic or the Berhon Laws will jeopardize their credibility.

  • Today Druids are strongly encouraged to pursue EU law using the Brehon Laws as their foundation, so mankind is able to escape its mental bondage and begin to Explore the Heavens and Colonize other Worlds

  • fuck french! gaelic is a far more beautiful language

  • @ljphareswilson

    Wow -- please give any reason why this isn't utter nonsense. "Paleo-Hebrew" or any Semitic language is built nearly 100% on triliteral roots, of which any form of Gaelic has exactly zero. The formation of verbs, nouns, in fact all parts of speech in the two language families are as different as they could possibly be. Please give evidence to the contrary, if you have any. Please give a single sentence or phrase from each that suggests real historical relationship. Good luck.

  • @kimbarator

    Its still a language. As long as you can cough out sounds and the person understands, thats good enough.

    -cpmc1, Irish.

  • Is álainn an Ghaeilge

    greetings from Finland <3

  • 10% fluency...maybe. Keep it alive by all means but don't force feed it to people.

  • It's not a dead language but the majority cannot speak it and have no interest in learning Irish so it should not be compulsory in schools. The decision to abandon Irish was made by a previous generation, probably for economic reasons. To say it is Irelands national language is being disingenuous. It is a minority language in Ireland and the interest is just not there. About 50% of Irish people claim to be able to speak it but when pushed, they can't.

  • I'm taking linguistics in college right now here in America. It would nice to understand the tongue of my ancestors, so I've got some work to do.

  • So awesome. 

  • that's pretty cool. one of my old teachers told me that it was a very poetic language. no?

  • The Princes of Ui Fiachrach international Clan rally welcomes the next generation of Celtic Druids who wish to help preserve King Daithi's ancient Druid traditions of our ancestors, under the Druid's Brehon Laws. Born Again Pagan Celts are welcome to help resurrect the next spiritual revival of our Celtic Druid ancestors at the Hill of Tara's Royal Grove. Our objective is to stay true to King Daithi's royal Druid traditions of our Indo European ancestors.

  • this is so cool! I have no idea what she's saying. I really want to learn gaelic even more now XP. its such an interesting sounding language. does anyone know what she's saying?

  • I hear the characteristics from Chinese, French, English, and a whole bunch of other languages coming from this woman’s mouth. This language is awesome!

  • I'm supprised at some of you. LIke English, its something you have to practice when your old enough to speak. Some of you are treating it like a taboo language. But then some of you call yourselves Irish Catholics. Join the modern world people.

  • I don't mean this in a racist way or an attack on Irish accents, but it sounds so much more natural when Irish people speak Gaelic rather than English.

  • @methanedirigible If a Japanese baby was raised by Irish that spoke Gaelic, she would speak it just as well as any Irish person could. This applies to any and all human languages.

  • @quidproquo2004 Dunno what you're on about. I was talking about accents not races.

  • I didn't know that she was fluent. Wow

  • Sounds like the elvish language from Lord of the Rings.

  • shes a BABE!!!!!!!

  • Very hard language, that is why I started learning German instead. Ich lerne auf Deutsch.

  • Chónaigh mé in Éirinn nuair a bhí mé beag, agus is aoibhinn liom an teanga. Is teanga állain í.

  • The Irish language is called Gaeilge, not Gaelic. Gaelic is the Umbrella which most Gallic originated languages (brittanic, saxon, welsh etc) are called.

  • Gallic actually refers to the Celtic peoples which once lived in France. Gaelic is a term used to describe Irish, Scottish and Manx but not Welsh. Brythonic is used to describe Welsh, along with Cornish and Breton. Gaelic languages are cousin to Brythonic languages as they all descend from proto-Celtic, a long lost ancestor language of them all.

  • But actual Irish people don't call it that; in fact they're mildly irritated when people call it that. They call it "Irish", to distinguish it from the Scottish, which is on the same branch of the linguistic tree, but different enough to be a distinctive dialect.

  • just say Irish not gaelic! its silly i speak Irish the Irish language

  • and If i say Irish gaelic, it's still rude?

  • yes its very annoying. Please call it either 'irish' or 'gaeilge'

  • @Deir07xx , so how do you pronounce that?  Gay-elg

  • After finding out I'm of Irish decent....Gaelic (don't know how to spell it right) interested me. it's too hard though....

  • I love the translation! I love that the speech is to all Irsih people home and in the diaspora : )

    It makes me so proud to be irish!

  • If it's not too much trouble could someone maybe send me the text of what she's saying? I'm trying to learn Irish and I'm having trouble reading it so I want to see how she says these words and what they look like written!

    Slán :)

  • nihigim, i have now added the text of this speech to the 'more info' box on the right! Thanks for your interest in our dear native tongue!

  • Ahh! Thank you so much!

  • Kinda reminds me of the 'language' of The Sims? Anyway, I actually like it. Sounds nice!

  • cool  :)

  • do only irish people speak this language?

  • It's an almost completely exclusive language.

    It's actually not even spoken as firts language by many of the Irish. It's more of a symbolic thing, really.

  • duh!!.....lol...no japanese and mexicans do too....tut tut tut

  • @quest8899

    There are about 50,000 Irish who speak this as their first language; the rest have learned to speak some of it in school. Close to 60,000 speak a closely related language (ScotsGaelic) in Scotland, in the western islands. Elsewhere in the world there are a few Gaelic clubs that learn and speak the language.

  • The Irish speak their own type of Gaelic. There are different types of Gaelic which are spoken in Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Mann, etc.

  • sound like dutch

  • Echt? Ik dacht meer op Arabisch...

  • ik leer momenteel arabisch

    compleet andere klanken =)

    maar 'k begrijp de understatement

  • this kinda sounds to me like the language in the lord of the rings

  • That is because the Elvish language in the books and movie is influenced by it.

  • i hope the irish become more independant

  • sounds different- a lot like some ancient germanic/nordic language- kinda like old english

  • we have a president? I thought we just had a fat prick called the "taoiseach". What does our president do?

  • Nothing pretty much

  • it sounds like simlish xD

  • Gaelic is mainly Scottish Gaelic , Irish its called when we mean Gaeilge, if we are speaking in English.They are from the same roots with many similarities, pre 1959 the spelling was closer but the Standard which came in to use in 1959 changed the the link and much to the dismay of Scottish Gaelic scholars Irish diverged further.

  • ceyd meelah fall-cha row-utt .

  • i wish i knew the langugae

  • Anyone else notice that the fire is computer generated?

  • English should be banned from the irish island.

  • Fuck that we would have nothing here if that was the case.

  • @receipt22

    Are you a fucking idiot? Only tyrants ban a language. It's pathetic that people thumb-uped to you. Damn westernphobia.

  • @receipt22 yeah, they should kill anyone who speaks english. doesn't matter if it's a child too. the police should shoot them dead. or, the people should have the right to hang any violators. I'm with you, let's kill them.

  • maith tiu maire

  • Tir na nog!

  • Aww Gaelic is so pretty!

  • Gaulish was sort of inbetween the two groups, but primarily shows traits of being a P-Celtic, so its more closely related to Welsh and the like. the term Gaelic comes from an old Welsh word for 'pirate' because Irish pirates raided thewest coast of Britain during Roman occupation.

  • cailin i'm sorry but Gaelic and Gaulish are not the same at all. There are two families of Celtic Languages....well actually three, but they can be characterized by what they did with what would be a Q in Latin in Ancient times. Scottish, Irish, and Manx are all Q-Celtic Languages where Welsh, Breton, Cornish, Brythonic, and Devonian are all P-Celtic languages. In Scottish 'four' is ceathair, in Devonian its peduar. So you can see what I mean...

  • Tá grá agam don teanga gaeilge. 's tír gan teanga, 's tír gan anam.

  • Gaeilge abú! :P

  • No im feckin not! Gaelic comes from Gallic and the Gauls, who were an ancient Celtic civilisation. Gaelic as a description covers all their descendants eg. Ireland, Scotland etc. We all speak different Gaelic languages, Irish speak Gaeilge, Scots speak gaidglig. All Celtic and Gaelic but individual to their own countries.

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  • why do people call gaeilge gaelic. why

  • That's how you spell it in English.

    I don't spell English 'Anglais' when I'm speaking in English.

    Did that make sense?! haha

  • It's an Exonym, which is a name for a language, people, country not used by the actually people themselves. like Germany and German are exonyms aswell, because, in Germany they call their country Deustchland, and their language is called deustch.

  • it sounds like simolish...

  • Lol it does

  • The people who created the sims actually based the Sim language on celtic langauges.

  • Nope your wrong jm. Gaelic covers all the Celtic languages. Gaeilge is Irish for Irish. And I wouldn't agree with the posh English accent comment. She probably speaks that way so Irish speakers from all provinces can understand. You can still hear the Ulster twang at times.

  • no man your wrong bout de gaelic bein related 2 celtic languages. were gaeilic people but speak gaeilge, the gaeilic version of the celtic language brought here naaa mean cuz

  • Gaelic covers all the Gaelic Languages, not all the Celtic langauges. The Gaelic languages are Manx, Scottish and Irish, but Welsh, Breton and Cornish are Celtic aswell, but are Brythonic languages

  • I think you may be thinking of the term Goidelic Languages when you mention Gaelic Languages

  • The terms Goidelic and Gaelic can be used Interchangeably when refering to the Languages, while Gaelic can also refer to the culture aswell

    Irish - Gaeilge

    Scottish - Gàidhlig

    Manx - Gaelg

  • How many in Ireland speak Irish Gaelic over English ? i mean theres probably 80% of the irish who have NO idea what shes saying ? Shame...Nice to have accents

  • The Irish language is called GAEILGE, not gaelic. Amadain go leir.

  • gaelic is the english name for the language, culture and sports just everybody here calls it irish instead of gaelic. gaeilge is the irish for irish. ta tusa comh amaideach na psweep anois!

  • I was got ejected from St Patricks church social hall during st Pats weekend and I cant wait to tell the story to my grandchildren some day. Since then I got proven right in the argument and forgave em all. The year earlier I had comforted a similar outcast by telling him to wear it as a badge of honor. So I took my own advice.

  • her Irish is pretty bad

  • I dont speak Irish. I'm just curious about your view.. why is it bad?

  • Maybe because it doesn't sound fluent, but alitte clunky like a learner.

  • at least she's using it, showing respect to her culture. do you think alex salmond speaks any scots gaelic? i'm sure you'd be complaining if she didn't speak any at all!!!!

  • It's pretty good, but wow..her accent, it's soo...English. I think she's trying to sound respectable or something

  • You obviously don't know very much about the Irish language, if you think she's talking in an English accent!

  • Tá gaeilge agam ach tá gaeilge na connachta.

    But her Irish sounds odd from what I've heard them speak in Lienster, and not even ulster Irish sounds like that.

    And I think i would no alot about Irish, considering I'm a native speaker. Gaelgoir.

    And In my honest opinion her Irish sounds very, maybe english wasn't the right word. I would say...hmm...it's lacking the lyrical Irish sound, it's very bland and flat, like English. not saying it has a english accent, it just reminds me of english

  • You are an absoloute tool.Speaking Irish in an English accent is impossible.If you dont believe me try find someone trying to speak Japanese in an irish accent.The language counts for 50% of the accent at least.

  • Have you heard a French man speak English? Yu'll notice their accent, which stems from their minor mispronouciations. Which is happening, her irish is understandable, but she mispronouces certain words, she seems to have a trouble with dipthongs. she lacks correct innotations.

    it is possible to speak Japanese with an English/Irish accent, you make make minor misnouciations & incorrect inotations, since Japanese is a very inotated language it would be easy to have an accent while speaking it.

  • ta ceart agat i mo bharul!

    maybe its not an english accent but a posh dublin one, and sure shes not muintir na haite so shel never sound as good as i assume you sound since you are

  • But Welsh and Irish grammar are very similar

    The most striking thing about all the Celtic languages is a thing called in Welsh 'treiglad' - initial consonant mutation - they all do it and it is strikingly similar in all of them

    So 'Tad' is father but it can appear as 'dad' (long a) 'thad' or 'nhad' (which is the correct way to adress your father)

    The vocabulary of Irish and Welsh are very different - but the grammar is amazingly similar

  • Do all the celtic languages have similar words, sentences, verbs etc.? And if they do is it because they were all part of the same language until they broke apart from eachother. e.g. English,German, French were alltogether one language untill only bits of the languages were take from each country or race as it were and made a whole new one, though still keeping ties to each other.

  • Most languages in Europe descend from a common root shared with Indian and Iranian languages called Indo-Eurpean

    The Celtic branch of this split in two - called Brythonic or - p-celtic and Goidelic or q-celtic - so called because for examplein Welsh (p-celtic) the intial sound of a word like four became a p (pedwar) but in Irish it kept it's original sound (K)

  • is it easier than it sounds?

  • En fait, on dit 'Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam' - Un pays sans langue est un pays sans âme' - Puisque les 2 mots 'ainm' (nom) et 'anam' (âme) ont la même pronunciation, beaucoup de gens font cette erreur :)

  • Wow, how wonderful!!!! It just sounds so beautiful and complicated. Haha! I think the Irish should speak more of their native Gaelic language, that way a very important part of their culture will never die.

  • Lol I thought Irish people spoke english!

  • Oh no, Irish people have they're own language just as much as the French or the Germans. English sort of just took over during the Elizabethan times. But no they have they're own language & think still speak it there, there effort to make it more of an official-language

  • Irish people do speak English, and Irish (gaeilge). Irish survives in what's called "Gaeltachtaí" - which is the Irish speaking regions within Ireland. Mostly on the west coast. It is also a mandatory subject all throughout school.

    Irish was the primary language here until Britain colonized it. They removed Irish from education, and when the Irish famine hit - it hit the west coast the hardest, killing 100,000's of Irish speakers, and thus - nearly killing the language altogether.

  • how many Gaelic speaking countries are there i know of 2 right off the top of my head. Ireland and Scotland. anymore?

  • I think Welsh is also a celtic-language

  • There are 6 celtic speaking areas in the world. Ireland, Scotland, Isle of Man, Brittany, Cornwall, and Wales. Gaelic isn't a language. Gaidhlig is Scottish Gaelic. Irish is simply called Gaeilge, or Irish in English. Manx Gaelic is called Gaelg.

    Irish and Welsh are probably the two strongest languages out of them all - but Scottish Gaelic is very strong on the west coast Islands of Scotland (Hebrides)

  • The Celtic Languages:

    Gaeilge: 70,000 native speakers. 250,000 fluent. Compulsory to study in scools.

    Welsh: Very strong, especially in the north.

    Scots: Strong on the islands off the west coast.

    Cornish: extinct but making an amazing comeback.

    Manx: Extinct.

    Bretagne: Strong among older generations but dying in the younger.

    Gallego: Very very strong among all ages.

    these are all the celtic languages.

  • Some corrections: "Scots" is a Germanic language. You mean Scottish Gaelic.

    Manx is also making a comeback.

    Gallego is a romance language very similar to Portuguese. The people may be Celtic but the language is not.

  • Totally right Orthohawk! The people in Galicia (some of them at least) are of Celtic origin, and I'd say 5 to 10 percent of the vocab of Galician is celtic-based... in every day speech however, someone from Portugal speaking Portuguese and someone from Galicia speaking Galician wouldn't have much difficulty understanding one another.

  • One question..... Galica....are you serious?

  • Totally serious.

  • she says she hates fucking brits

  • Everybody in Ireland should speak this cool language but also English when talking to foreigners, like Dutch people do.

  • beautiful language

  • so cool language...

  • What is she saying

  • So let me get this straight: If somebody say they speak Irish, is that an acceptable term? Or is it more proper to say Irish Gaelic to refer to the language, or maybe even using its Irish term, Gaeilge?

  • Gaelic is a generic term that cover's all the Gaelic languages. in the same way that describing someone from Gaelic countries as being Gaelic. Gaeilge is the specific name of the Irish language in the language itself. it is not improper to say Irish as most of us learned the language through English. although the average Irish person is taught Irish for roughly 13/14 years.

  • o gosh that language is not from our planet.

  • My grandmother was full irish and in an attempt to keep me in touch with my heritage attempted to teach me Iish Gaelic but she passed on beforee I learned much so now I am trying to learn about my culture and am trying to learn the language.

  • about or less than 10% speak the language at home as their first language! It depends where you live! generally the western regions!! it's a compulsary subject at school!! i know 3 men who didn't know any english until they were adults because they were from conemara and English was never used!! nowadays i'd imagine that every 1 in Ireland can speak fluent English!! Irish is a beautiful language!! Unfortunately it's not thought well and some students dislike it!!

  • Today the Hill of Taras Invisible Kingdom is our haplogroups Royal Grove, which protects our ancestors ancient rights under the Druids Brehon Laws. The Druid's Brehon Laws are protected by the Unification of ancient Gaul which is the EU of today and under international law. The Hill of Taras Royal Grove also represents our Celtic Pagan Freedoms of our ancestors nomadic Freedoms on a International scale.

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  • Irish is a language. If you ask someone in Ireland what language they speak, 9 out of ten times they will tell you "Irish".

  • Are Irish, Scottish and Welsh related languages?

  • yes it is

  • Scottish and Irish are basically the same, since the Irish brought Gaelic to Scotland. But Welsh is pretty much an entirely separate language, since Gaelic is waht is called a Goidelic language, while Welsh is a Brythonnic language, meaning it is the true British language.

  • thats what i freakin meant it's not called irish it's gaelic, irish is a nationality

  • Actually, they often DO refer to Irish Gaelic as simply "Irish" in order to distinguish it from Scottish Gaelic. And while the spoken differences between Scottish and Irish Gaelic are small, the written differences are quite substantial.

  • You idiot! It is called 'Irish', it can also be called Gaelic or Irish Gaelic if you wish. English, Spanish and German are nationalities AND languages, so what's wrong with doing the same with the language of the Irish people??

  • In fairness now it should be called Gaeilge.

  • Neamhleor teanga amháin :) <3

  • Umm... AWESOME!!!

  • Do the Irish speak in Gaelic most often, or English? Is this a formality here?

  • hello everybody!! im an italian boy and id like to learn gaelic very much...can you reccomand me a video with original text and translation in irish, thank you! go raibh mìle maith agaibh!

  • THE JUDGMENT OF TARA...The royal Arch Druid Amergin from ancient Gaul, spoke this poem of law as his invocation of Hibernia. Together ...I request the land of Hibernia (to come forth)...coursed is the wild sea...wild the crying mountains...crying the generous woods...generous in showers (rain/waterfalls)...showers lakes and vast pools...vast pools hosts of well-springs...

    well-springs of tribes in assembly...

    assembly of kings of Tara...

  • Tara host of tribes...tribes of the sons of Mil...Mil of boats and ships...ships come to ...Hibernia...Hibernia high terribly blue...

    an incantation on the (same) wind...

    (which was the) wind empty of Bres...

    Bres of an empty cup...Hibernia be mighty...Ermon at the beginning...Ir, Eber, requested...(now it is) I (who) request the land of Hibernia!

  • she, as president of ireland only uses gaeilge on paddy's day and her inaugral speech, then goes on to say we should be proud ta speak the language? lead by example ya useless bitch.

  • Hey....atleast she can speak it! I couldnt string too sentences together for ya so maybe she doesnt use it as we woudnt know what the fuck she's on about! haha

  • It's weird to me but still very pretty! I want to learn either Gaelic or Cymraeg.

  • Maith thú a bhean uasal! Cothrom na Féinne

  • The bible is a foreign Middle Eastern book which is made up of disjointed Aramaic letters that has been compiled together to promote Constantine's war objective. These disjointed Aramaic letters which has been rearranged is not part of the indo European language branch.

  • Constantine's new book which has been compiled together is anti indo European. This book should not be used in a court of law since it is based on sacrificing your first born child to test your faith and promotes the murder of Celtic Pagan witches.

  • Since the unification of the EU is the unification of ancient Gaul, born again Celtic Pagans should promote their legal rights through the Druid's Brehon Laws to establish their oath of credibility, which protects your human rights.

    May the memories of the Druids Brehon Laws exist forever at the Hill of Tara, which was brought from ancient Gaul and was committed to memory since the beginning of the ice age.

  • go han- mhaith