Scottish Gaelic language

Scottish Gaelic
Scots Gaelic
Gàidhlig
Pronunciation	[ˈkaːlikʲ]
Native to	United Kingdom, Canada, United States, Australia, New Zealand
Region	Scotland, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia and Glengarry County, Canada
Native speakers	58,552 in Scotland.[1] 92,400 people aged three and over in Scotland had some Scottish Gaelic ability in 2001[2] with estimates of additional 500[3]–2000[4] in Nova Scotia, 1,610 speakers in the United States in 2000,[5] 822 in Australia in 2001[6] and 669 in New Zealand in 2006.
Language family	Indo-European Celtic Insular Celtic Goidelic Scottish Gaelic
Writing system	Gaelic alphabet (Roman alphabet)
Official status
Official language in	Scotland
Language codes
ISO 639-1	gd
ISO 639-2	gla
ISO 639-3	gla
ELP	Scottish Gaelic
Linguasphere	50-AAA
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Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig, pronounced "Gah-lick") is a Celtic language. It is commonly called just Scots Gaelic in Scottish English. It is a sister language of Irish Gaelic and Manx Gaelic; all three are Goidelic languages. These are related to the Welsh language, Cornish language and the Breton language (these three are Brittonic or Brythonic languages).

1. ↑ Census 2001 Scotland: Gaelic speakers by council area Archived 2006-09-25 at the Wayback Machine from Comunn na Gaidhlig (cnag.org.uk).
2. ↑ "News Release – Scotland's Census 2001 – Gaelic Report" Archived 2013-05-22 at the Wayback Machine from General Registrar for Scotland website, 10 October 2005. Retrieved 27 December 2007.
3. ↑ "Nova Scotia Museum's Curatorial Report No. 97" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2013-03-06.
4. ↑ Gaelic in Nova Scotia Archived 2008-10-29 at the Wayback Machine from gov.ns.ca.
5. ↑ "Language by State – Scottish Gaelic" Archived 2012-01-11 at the Wayback Machine on Modern Language Association website. Retrieved 27 December 2007
6. ↑ "Languages Spoken At Home" Archived 2007-06-21 at the Wayback Machine from Australian Government Office of Multicultural Interests website. Retrieved 27 December 2007