Scottish Gaelic | |
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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. |
Indo-European
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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 |
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).
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