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Glasgow Gaelic

Glasgow Gaelic
Gaelic of Glasgow
Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic: Gàidhlig Ghlaschu
Native toUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
RegionScotland
EthnicityScottish people
Native speakers
5,739[1]
Early forms
Language codes
ISO 639-3–

Glasgow Gaelic (Scottish Gaelic: Gàidhlig Ghlaschu) is an emerging dialect, described as "Gaelic with a Glasgow accent",[2] of Standard Scottish Gaelic.[3] It is spoken by about 10% of Scottish Gaelic speakers, making it the most spoken dialect outside of the Highlands.[4]

Glasgow Gaelic emerged due to Scottish Gaelic-medium education as well as a migration from the Outer Hebrides to Glasgow.[5] Most speakers learn Glasgow Gaelic through attending the Glasgow Gaelic School and the dialect has already contributed new works of Scottish Gaelic literature.[citation needed]

Even though some resent the promotion of a Scottish Gaelic language revival in the Lowlands,[6][7] in 2019 urban poet Niall O'Gallagher was appointed Bàrd Baile Ghlaschu, or as the City of Glasgow's first ever Gaelic language Poet Laureate.[8]

In 2020, Duncan Sneddon, Gaelic Development Officer for the Church of Scotland, wrote of the need for inclusion of possible worshippers who, "may have gone through Gaelic Medium Education, and have a good grasp of the language, but without a family or church background with Gaelic, feel that 'Church Gaelic' is outside their comfort zone."[9]

  1. ^ "Census Results". scrol.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 11 April 2014.
  2. ^ McIntyre, Emmett (December 24, 2015). "Gaelic Language in Scotland's Largest City Thrives - Linguist Takes Note of Glaswegian Gaelic". Transceltic - Home of the Celtic nations.
  3. ^ Nance, Claire (September 15, 2015). "'New' Scottish Gaelic speakers in Glasgow: A phonetic study of language revitalisation". Language in Society. 44 (4): 553–579. doi:10.1017/S0047404515000408 – via Cambridge University Press.
  4. ^ "Evolution of 'Glasgow Gaelic'". www.royalcelticsociety.scot.
  5. ^ Nance, Claire (October 15, 2018). Smith-Christmas, Cassie; Ó Murchadha, Noel P.; Hornsby, Michael; Moriarty, Máiréad (eds.). New Speakers of Minority Languages: Linguistic Ideologies and Practices. Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 213–230. doi:10.1057/978-1-137-57558-6_11 – via Springer Link.
  6. ^ Robinson, Mairi, ed. (1985). The Concise Scots Dictionary (1987 ed.). Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press. p. ix. ISBN 0080284914. by the tenth and eleventh centuries the Gaelic language was in use throughout the whole of Scotland, including the English-speaking south-east, though no doubt the longer-established Northern English continued to be the dominant language there
  7. ^ Aitken, A. (1985). "A history of Scots" (PDF). media.scotslanguage.com.
  8. ^ Edited by Linden Bicket, Emma Dymock, and Alison Jack (2024), Scottish Religious Poetry: From the Sixth Century to the Present, Saint Andrew Press, Edinburgh. p. 309.
  9. ^ Duncan Sneddon (2020), Handbook of Biblical and Ecclesiastical Gaelic, Church of Scotland, Edinburgh. p. 3.

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