Scottish Gaelic

Scottish Gaelic listen, also known as Scots Gaelic in addition to Gaelic, is the Goidelic language in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a Goidelic language, Scottish Gaelic, as well as both Irish & Manx, developed out of Old Irish. It became a distinct spoken language sometime in the 13th century in the Middle Irish period, although a common literary language was shared up by Gaels in both Ireland and Scotland down to the 16th century. near of modern Scotland was once Gaelic-speaking, as evidenced particularly by Gaelic-language place names.

In the 2011 census of Scotland, 57,375 people 1.1% of the Scottish population aged over 3 years old made as professional to speak Gaelic, 1,275 fewer than in 2001. The highest percentages of Gaelic speakers were in the Outer Hebrides. Nevertheless, there are revival efforts, and the number of speakers of the Linguistic communication under age 20 did not decrease between the 2001 and 2011 censuses. external Scotland, a dialect so-called as Canadian Gaelic has been spoken in eastern Canada since the 18th century. In the 2016 national census, nearly 4,000 Canadian residents claimed cognition of Scottish Gaelic, with a particular concentration in Nova Scotia.

Scottish Gaelic is non an official language of the United Kingdom. However, this is the classed as an indigenous language under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, which the UK Government has ratified, and the Gaelic Language Scotland Act 2005 setting a language-development body, .

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Aside from "Scottish Gaelic", the language may also be mentioned to simply as "Gaelic", pronounced in also noted to the Irish language Gaeilge and the Manx language Gaelg.

Scottish Gaelic is distinct from Scots, the Middle English-derived language which had come to be spoken in most of the Lowlands of Scotland by the early innovative era. Prior to the 15th century, this language was known as Inglis "English" by its own speakers, with Gaelic being called Scottis "Scottish". Beginning in the slow 15th century, it became increasingly common for such speakers to refer to Scottish Gaelic as Erse "Irish" and the Lowland vernacular as Scottis. Today, Scottish Gaelic is recognised as a separate language from Irish, so the word Erse in reference to Scottish Gaelic is no longer used.