Scottish Gaelic, at the beginning of a new era (Basque subtitles)

http://www.argia.com

Around 60.000 people speak Scottish Gaelic, most of them in the north of the country. After 300 years of losing speakers, they have managed to stop this lose and with the change of the political atmosphere, they are planning to gain speakers to save the language from its disappearance. We have talked with Janet MacLeod, the head teacher of a Gaelic school and Kenneth Murray, the chief executive of the Bòrd na Gàidhlig.
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60.000 hiztun ditu Eskozia iparraldean hitz egiten den gaelerak. 300 urtez hiztunak galtzen joan arren, giro politikoa aldeko den honetan, hiztunak ez galtzea lortu dute lehen aldiz. Inverness herrian iaz ireki zuten gaeleraz soilik irakasten den eskola eta bertako zuzendariarekin hitz egiteaz gain, Bòrd na Gàidhlig taldeko buruarekin ere mintzatu gara.

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[nonyanb09]

I'm an American, but I say, please god don't let Scottish and Irish languages die!

[joeblow238]

@KateFan your so wrong i makes me sick, until the reformation in the 16th century, most of scotland was still speaking gaelic, minus orkney and shetland and a couple other places,. gaelic was still spoken as far south as galloway and the borders. scots-doric for 1000 years????? spoken like a true sassenach

[Nanakanisurra]

It's a beautiful sounding language

[subria11]

air mo shon fhéin cho Maxwell tha ... orm/ort uile do bhrìgh 's bu choir foghlam gaelic

[12hiddendragons]

god bless these people for preserving the Gaelic tongue.

[musicalduayen]

Can anyone may translate what does he says exactly after 5:25 til 5:45 ??? Nothing is clear cause of that shit music.

[ruiseartalcorn]

Tapadh leibh airson seo! :) Le beannachdan, Ruiseart :)

[albokatxo]

I´m so happy to see that something is being done to help this language!

as a basque poet said: "herria da gozputza, hizkuntza bihotza"

(the country is the body, the language is the heart)

[segano1]

@AlbaSiar During the 1600s, there was no doubt about the status of Scots as a language. As well as being linguistically differentiated from English, Scots enjoyed the same political and cultural development as other emerging European state languages. Scots was thi Kingis Scottis in exactly the same way as English was the King's English or French was la Langue du Roi. Scots was the language of the Scottish royal court, of government, administration and law.

[segano1]

@AlbaSiar By linguistic criteria there is no doubt that traditional Scots is a different language from English, however the distinction between dialect and language owes more to culture and politics than it does to linguistic factors, according to a famous saying "a language is a dialect with an army and a navy".

The rich Scots language is as distinct from the English language as Norse is from Swede, German from Dutch, Spanish from Portugese and Scots-Gáidhlig from Irish-Gaelige.

[segano1]

@AlbaSiar Scots is not a single dialect. The Doric of the North East and the traditional speech of the Glaswegian working classes are rather different from one another, yet all Scots dialects share a fundamental unity of linguistic features which are absent from any other "English dialect". Scots is a collection of dialects which are clearly most closely related to one another, and together they form a distinct group which is sharply differentiated from anything else that can be called English.

[AlbaSiar]

@segano1 Doric has it's origins from Anglo - saxon migrants..