Speaking Our Language

[olenaturale]

So proud of my heritage! :)

[dellboy177]

I'm an Irishman who just watched Braveheart. Enough said.

[olenaturale]

@dellboy177 LOL :P

[asylumzoe]

All I wanna do is know how to pronounce "tha gaoi argam ort" (I love you) and no goddamn website I find lists the pronunciation -__-

[breizhcatalonia1993]

probably the most beautiful language of UK

[aluxbalum]

This is beautiful, I hope every country adopts a legislation and puts in to practice the reintroduction of local native languages which are fast extinguishing. I am Comanche/Pur´epecha, though my great gran parents spoke our languages, my grandparents willingly lost language I wish I could speak them. I see this as a way to reconnect to our roots regardless of where we are in the world

[funkybjorn11]

@Sunflowerchild53 - Call the embassy of Scotland, or contact some Scottish American groups. Try to contact Lees-McRae College in North Carolina.

[dimgwalltameiben]

Ppl where I live in Wales love to dwell on the fact that Welsh was oppressed long ago as a ready made excuse to not bother learning/supporting it, if Scots do this it's the road to disaster.

[ClassicalRay]

Scotland and Ireland had better stand up and preserve their language and culture before it's gone. Multiculturalism is destroying American and our Southern Heritage and traditions, they brand us as racist and insensitive for honoring our forefathers and their Celtic ways.. Stand up!!

[GaeilgeSpraoi]

Is iontach cosúil le mo theanga Gaeilge na hÉirinn. Beannachtaí ó do dheirfiúr gaeilge, Éire! ;)

[Zggrt443]

'Tapadh leat' from New Zealand!

Gàidhlig is a difficult language but I'll learn it. I'm lucky enough to have a native Gàidhlig speaker from Steòrnabhagh in my neighbourhood here on the other side o' the world. Who'd a thought?

[McAndy89]

@Zggrt443 Where in NZL are you?? Close to Dunedin??? I'd be keen to find someone else over here who's trying to learn it to.

[Zggrt443]

@McAndy89 I am in Aucks mate. I did know someone in Dunedin who knew it. I'll see if I can find their details.

[McAndy89]

@Zggrt443 yeah bro, that'd be mean as mate.

[LeavingUp]

this is great I love these shows, hope you upload more :)

[michaelc6012]

I love the car at 0:55 great! I remeber watchthis at school (primary) great shame been discomtinued though

[LittleImpaler]

I am not Scottish, but I know some scottish. I think it really great that more Scottish people are speaking their language.

[HorseFace88]

Gaelic is only spoken by Highlanders, Islanders and relatives of these from elsewhere. Scots is what was spoken elsewhere in Scotland so really, Gaelic is not the 'Scottish' language, just one of the 2 or 3.

[KindDerKanalisation]

That's not true.

Scottish Gaelic was spoken in Glasgow, Dumfries, Edinburg and many parts of the Lowlands, too. In the second part of the 19th century it was only spoken in the Highlands and the Western Isles, because of the English oppresion.

Excuse me, for some mistakes, which I surely made.

[groinhat]

HorseFace88 is right.

Gaelic was spoken/understood in almost all of Scotland a thousand years ago, when it had replaced the indigenous Pictish and Brythonic tongues, and the Old Norse spoken on the Isles. After the 11th century it began to lose ground to Scots when the burghs were founded, and later to English.

It's important symbolically for Scotland and it would be cool to revive it fully, but don't romanticise someone else's history. The oppression was as much Lowland Scottish as English.

[KindDerKanalisation]

I know that the anglosiced lowland scots opressed the gaelic, too, however I ment English not in the sense of the nation, but as a language.

[3tangle3]

@KindDerKanalisation but languages similar to welsh were spoken in southern scotland before gaelic arrived ;)

[breizhcatalonia1993]

@3tangle3 to welsh? o.O maybe you want to say the irish? :D

[joeblow238]

@breizhcatalonia1993 no, brythonic languages were spoken in lowland scotland before scots-gaelic

[breizhcatalonia1993]

@joeblow238 similar to welsh right?

[jonomurphy3]

@breizhcatalonia1993

Not similar to Welsh, both are from different 'branches' of Gaelic (one branch is Scottish, Irish, and Manx Gaelic - they all share similarities and have some level of mutual intelligibility)

[ledzepplinkid12321]

@KindDerKanalisation

actually it was the scots themselves who

discouraged it's use (starting in the 14th

century if memory serves)

[seonidh]

@ledzepplinkid12321 the scottish king who promoted the kingdom should be more continental after a power struggle with a noble house in the highlands. Medieval Europe saw ireland and the gaelic cultures of both Scotland and Ireland as the most backward and barberous of all europe. Shocking isnt it.

[CenturyGamer]

Lowland scots isn't a language, it is a dialect a half language if you will. Most of it is pronounciations and words are taken from german and scottish as well as a massive amount of scotticisms from english language. Outside of the scriptural world it has barely advanced beyond a basic slang, and i would know as i live in a rural town/village. Scottish is only spoken in those areas you mentioned because of english oppressors such as yourself.

[poiuytrewq098style]

@CenturyGamer

Scots is a language, you are wrong. I understand that people want Gaelic to live on, but Scots is just as much a part of our history as Gaelic is, and i despise people dismissing it as a 'dialect'. It is similar to English, yes, because it is descended from the same route as English, its what marks most Scots out from English people. I don't know where you live, but i can tell you if you lived in southern Ayrshire or Aberdeenshire you would see it in action.

[amandaberesford]

@poiuytrewq098style

Scots has not suffered the same degree of legal and social restriction as Gaelic has. Tell us which legal restrictions were imposed against Scots.

[poiuytrewq098style]

@amandaberesford

What does that have to do with what i said? Just because England imposed restrictions on Gaelic, does that mean everyone in the lowlands should just forget their native language of 700 years and start speaking Gaelic instead? People in Glasgow spoke Gaelic for 600 years, and Scots for 700, that makes Scots our predominant historical language, not Gaelic.

[amandaberesford]

@poiuytrewq098style

England? Nice obfuscation. Learn your own history dear. By the way, Gaelic has been spoken for over 1600 years.

[poiuytrewq098style]

@amandaberesford

Scots Gaelic didn't even exist until the early middle ages, if you mean Irish then you are correct. And please stop calling me an Anglo-Scot, as it happens i am Irish living in Scotland, which incidentally is what Gaels were, not 'native Scots' whatever that means, since humans evolved in Africa.

[amandaberesford]

@poiuytrewq098style

if you are an English speaker living in Scotland, then you are an Anglo-Scot. The Gaelic language has existed in Scotland longer than any other living language group. Those native Gaels as well as those in the Middle Ages would have no clue what "Irish" was.

[poiuytrewq098style]

@amandaberesford

No, I am a Scots speaker living in Scotland who also speaks English. Scots Gaelic only split off from Middle Irish in the 11th or 12th century, which given that it was originally spoken in Ireland makes it an Irish language. Once we start having a seperate Scottish Gaelic, then perhaps it can be described as a native language, in the same way that Scots is a native language. By the time Gaelic had made this split, Scots had already been made language of the scottish court.

[amandaberesford]

@poiuytrewq098style

Calling Gaelic "an Irish language" is akin to calling Scots " a Dutch language". There are indeed many parallels between Gaelic and Irish, but Gaelic in all it's forms( Early and modern) is most definitely the earliest language still spoken in Scotland.

You mean to say "Inglis", Scots was a term taken from Gaels in a political coup. This was done to diminish the status of Gaelic, which was henceforth called "Erse", and make the language seem alien.

[amandaberesford]

@poiuytrewq098style

Who are you to determine what form of Gaelic was spoken by these early Gaels? The fact that what linguists call "Middle Irish" was mutually intelligible across the strait does not nullify the right of Gaelic to be consdiered a native language in Scotland. I would say far more worthy than so called "Scots" .

[livz82]

@amandaberesford why are you all fighting amongst yourselves no wonder scotland was so easy to invade the main object is to keep the identity and language alive

[joeblow238]

@livz82 easy to invade?? scotland is one of the only countries in the world to never be conquered. idiot. just ask the might english army, or the mighty norse-man what happened when they tried to conquer scotland. they were sent packing like everyone else

[amandaberesford]

@poiuytrewq098style

Nobody is asking or expecting Anglo-Scots to speak Gaelic. More anti-Gaelic propaganda.

[joeblow238]

@HorseFace88 your 100% wrong, scots-gaelic was spoken as far down as galloway and the borders, and once pictish died out, scots-gaelic was THE language of scotland, robert the bruce, william wallace, erc all spoke gaelic. man, i hate people who comment on history when they know nothing about it

[alejandromatheson]

bruidhinn ar canan!!!

[fagottist]

aye

'S math sin

[donnajeanapril17]

This is great! More episodes please!

[morri82]

I remember watching this when I was young. That's great that the new Scots Gaelic channel gives people the opportunity to learn the language. Siuthad!