Scottish gaelic phrases

gaidhlig...

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Education

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• Gaelic
• scottish
• gaidhlig
• na
• alba
• h-alba
• phrases

[mliflim2]

Good to see Gaelic on the net. Useful phrases here. Note, there should be an apostrophe before DÈANAMH.

[AskSOmeoneelse]

thanks

[steaphris]

Il doit etre "Failte gu Alba". Ce n'est pas "Failte gu h-Alba".

[AskSOmeoneelse]

You're correct, sorry I was getting this confused with Irish. And by the way it's spelt 'fàilte'.

[Cadbren]

How do you add accents though when using a comments box?

[AskSOmeoneelse]

Depends, most keyboards have these: áéíóú, (pressing AltGr and the vowel), I also can get âêîôûŵŷ and àèìòù, ñç etc due to this being a 'gaelic' keyboard lol :D

[ronasheton]

Don't let it disappear. Cut that Scots Englsh crap and do revive gaelic. I'm not even from the British Islands, I'm a Catalan, but it would break my heart to see these beautiful languages dead.

[LordZaphikel]

@ronasheton I'd like to thumbs up your comment a million times.

[mysterychemistry]

I agree with the top commenter. Don't let this language die. It would help if you had added sound, that is, pronunciation of these phrases.

[Elberiver11]

@UrineArtist and why are you called "Urine" artist? lol

[Elberiver11]

@UrineArtist I like the sound of Scottish Gaelic, i heard it the first time in my life a few weeks ago, when i discovered BBC ALBA on here, its been launched only a few years ago, as far as i know? I am surprised to have found it sounding like Swiss German (which is completely different from Standard German, most Germans would not be able to understand the Swiss) , it has a very strong melodic sound, the sound of Scottish Galic reminds me a lot of it.

Can you speak Scottish Gaelic?

[UrineArtist]

@Elberiver11

Yes I'm from Scotland, our common migration path is supposed to be Iberia by way of Ireland, we have many genetic similarities with people from Galicia and Asturias for example. Irish legend actually details this migration.

That said however Scotland also consists of many cultures too like Germany, the Brythonic Celtic cultures and Picts in the East, nobody knows for certain where the Picts are from. Then we have Norse blood on the Islands and Germanic migrations in the South.

[Elberiver11]

@UrineArtist

Of course German and Keltic have the same offspring, but so have slavic and latin etc. , and yet they are very different. Actually i am surprised that especially keltic and german are so different, because i would have expected them to be closer.

The whole south of Germany is actualy keltic settled, the Germans are not a "pure" but a mixed race. German-Keltic mix in the South, German-Slavic in the (former) East.

Are you scottish? I like Scotland, i love the sound of Gaelic.

[Elberiver11]

@UrineArtist Yes i know, Bask is the only language whose origine is unnknown. Nobody knows where it comes from.

[UrineArtist]

@Elberiver11

All our languages come from the original Indo European settlers, there are many charts online that may help, google "European Languages Chart".

While the Celtic and Germanic languages (such as English) are related, you have to go all the way back to the start to find their common ancestor.

I believe only the basque language is mostly unaccounted for, leading to a number of fascinating theories as to their origins, I'm not a linguist though, just to add as a disclaimer.

[UrineArtist]

@ronasheton

<3 Catalonia

[Ichnusia]

But the audio?? How can I learn if I can't ear ?