WIKITONGUES: Iain speaking Scottish Gaelic
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Luckily, a lot of schools in Scotland are trying to revive Scottish Gaelic (or at least a modern variant of it).
+Daniel Hawkins Its not being "revived" as it never died. They're trying to bolster the language and increase speakers across the country.
+Sneagator yeah but Gaelic was only ever spoken in the Hebrides and Highlands. It has never ever been spoken as a main language of Scotland as the rest of the country spoke Pictish.
+The Fhaisnéiseoirí It was without a doubt spoken all throughout Scotland barring Lothian. Anywhere north of the Firth of Forth spoke Gaelic at one point or another (besides the Northern Isles). It was also spoken in the Western Lowlands, and the Galloway dialect of Gaelic survived for quite a while.
+The Fhaisnéiseoirí
Between the 9th and the 13th century, 90% of Scotland spoke Gaelic.
+The Fhaisnéiseoirí Scottish Gaelic was in the past spoken in the Lowlands as well.
As an Irish Gaelic speaker ( or just 'Irish' in Ireland ) from southern Ireland, this was quite hard to understand. It sounded like Donegal Irish ramped up to an eleven.
That's pretty much exactly what Scottish Gaelic is.
Out of curiosity what percentage of this can you follow?
Very little. That might be because of my own proficency, but its less than 25%
Táim ábalta cúpla focail a thuigint freisin, ach go díreach ceapaim go bhfuil sé beagnach teanga difriúl, leis an méid sin focail eile nach thuigim.
Ceithern In amanna cabhraíon na fótheideal liom é a thuigmheail níos fear.
"mammoth cave cultist.
law school and i blame a nigga"
gotta love subtitles
Without you I would have missed out on such brilliance as:
"We put up with those sleeping garlic with Allah" and
"Did you give her an inch in? How good your game, of course made you edition plus she is good attention to the other fellow here scandal right on your hot body."
he is talking about garlic apparently
"Oh, it was an ischemic opera cake and the origin a Glasgow..."
This is so interesting to listen to as a Welsh speaker. It’s almost totally incomprehensible, but it has similar sounds. You can really tell that Gaelic and Irish are closely related while Cornish and Welsh are both distantly related, as well as where the Scottish accent comes from. It’s a beautiful language!
Sounds a lot like Northern Welsh to me
Can you understand Cornish?
@@andrewjennings7306 It’s odd - like I should understand but I don’t. It’s more similar than Spanish and Italian are to each other for example, but I can only understand some sentences because the latin loans are different. It’s very confusing lol
@@jamiel6005 have you considered learning it?
Welsh has an etherial quality, like it’s from another, more civilized and magical world. Irish and Scottish Gaelic feel like the soil, earthy and peaty.
In Australia during the 1960s it was not unusual to hear this language spoken regularly, now you tell modern Aussies that this was spoken regularly.... People have no idea that another Language was even spoken by the Scots !!
Well I knew an old man in the late 1990's, one Donald Macleod, who spent his life shearing sheep in western Victoria, and who seemed more fluent in Gaelic than in English.
Whereabouts in Australia did you hear it? I was just a kid in the 60s and I don't remember people speaking Gælic but heard lots of people speaking very broad Scots. I can remember a comedian on British films who seem to be speaking Gælic of some kind and everyone thought it was very funny.
Super interesting. I'm Aussie but I was born in '03. I wish we were taught more about the cultural history of this country
My grandma grew up in rural Cape Breton, Nova Scotia during the 1930s and she spoke gàidhlig at home with her parents and siblings, neighbouring families etc. After WW2 it went from pretty ubiquitous there to dying out within a generation. She said when she was in primary school the english teachers would cane her and her friends for speaking gàidhlig to each other. I believe there are only 10k-12k people with L1/L2 skills in Nova Scotia now, but the education system teaches it as a second language option in school (instead of French) so hopefully it starts making a comeback within a generation. Never give up hope.
@@calvinbaII An bhfuil an teanga Gaelach na hAlba Nua agat?
I have a bible in this language given to my grandmother from the Isle of Lewis. Incomprehensible to me of course.
Mr_Fallout omg! I'd love to look at it. I'd try my best to read it. What a lovely keepsake from your gran xx
bible examples eg 'Tiomnadh Nuadh' is new testament archive.org/search.php?query=gaelic%20bible%20scottish
(you might get more examples by leaving out 'scottish')
gaelic church music ruclips.net/video/fMqKxpq6QAE/видео.html
Ooh
Myself as well!! It is precious not the less!
Sounds like a D&D trinket item
"I am Ian" takes a lot more time to say in Scottish Gaelic apparently.
*Iain
I'm pretty sure he was saying his full name, Is mise Iain means my name is Iain. I don't know Gàidhlig but I know some Gaeilge (Irish) and the two have some similarities.
There are several ways of saying that, depending on context-
Mise Iain
'S mise Iain
Is mise Iain
Se Iain a tha orm
Se Iain a th'orm
Se Iain a th'annam
Se Iain a tha annam
Is e Iain a tha annam etc
"Is mise Iain" it's the same amount of words in Gaelic as in English.
Is Mise Iain
Wow almost so identical to irish gaeilge !!! I thought he was speaking irish! I can understand nearly everything he says
+Katerina P That because our Scots Gaelic of based strongly on Old irish Gaelic :)
+Katerina P Close to Manx too.
Me too in Canada they learn Gaelic and I am Irish and one teacher was counting in Gaelic so I understood.
+Transgender Q&A so what the Scottish originally speak?
Transgender Q&A google is an asshole.
I've been working so hard on learning this for my cultures sake, thank you for posting this audio
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cheers to you!! we have an endemic language form north aragon in the Pyrenees that my grandpa speaks, it is mostly lost now. I visited scottland on 2018 and I’ve been in love since then. We all knew it was stunningly beautiful but being there I fell in love with your culture, definitively worth preserving and rescueing!!
@@Littlemouse_ I’m glad you like Scotland, your always welcome :)
@@Littlemouse_ which language? (:
It has a very unusual sound to an outsider, like a cross between Norwegian, Dutch & Hungarian; Also it sounds very musical and flowing....
You mentioned Norwegian and Dutch, and I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one. I wonder if the viking conquest of northern Britain had any effect in phonology of Gaelic languages there.
There is definitely old norse and therefore Norwegian sounding stuff. Their syntax though is closer to berber which also is possibly where the initial language came from before borrowing many Norse words
Gaelige and West Vries are very close
@@jonathansgarden9128 how could it originate from berber of all languages?
@@PortalJay BS, Fries is Germanic and therefore much closer to English, Dutch, German or even any of the Scandinavian languages
"Her sleepy garlic ooh la la"
1:17 I heard it as I read that comment
I’m laughing so hard!!!! 😂😂
I think it was "ag èisteachd ris a' Ghàidhlig a h-uile latha", "listening to Gaelic every day" :)
@salty chip yeah it's scary at first! I PROMISE it makes sense once you get used to it lol, much more consistent than English
@salty chip I should also mention Manx: basically part of a continuum with Irish and Gàidhlig, but written with English orthography. There's pros and cons: in Gàidhlig "m" often changes to "mh", which sounds like "v". In Manx, it literally changes from m to v. Easier to read sometimes, but it loses some a link to the original word
This sounds like so many different languages at once
My Grandmother 🇮🇪 could speak Irish Gaelic, and my Grandad Scottish Gaelic. They used to speak to each other in it. I didn't know what was said, but it was amazing to listen to ❤️🙏
1:02 "have reached his free enough to have come here has been music industry cock."
Thank you CC.
you should've read them further) LMAO
I got wreak is free enough and alcohol spinach. a canvas jury cannot on her my mother. it is a quarterback making a hole in garlic.
Is math a rinn thu, a bhalaich! Abair gu bheil e math Gàidhlig ghlan, shoilleir a chluinntinn air WikiTongues. Tapadh leat airson a' bhidio a dhèanamh. Tha an sreath-bhidiothan seo a' toirt tlachd dhomh fad greise - is toil leam a bhith ag èisteachd ri uile na cànain a th' ann - ach bha fadachd orm ri Gàidhlig fhaotainn ann! Tha mi 'n dòchas gum faic mi a-rithist thu ann an Còmhairle nan Leabhraichean nuair a bhios mi ann an Glaschu an ath-bhliadhna. Le gach deagh dhùrachd bho na Stàitean Aonaichte.
Thomas Leigh Ba deas an dreas cainte uaidh agus tá toghadh na Gaeilge ar bharr a theanga aige, bail ó Dhia air.
Itheann Pòl aràn.
Duolingo teaches
I've been learbing Gaeilge for about 30 minutes and all I can understand is "math" "tha" and "agus"
a bhastairt salach
Dude!!! Nice!!! I'm learning my mainly Scottish heritage language. Hopefully I can be as good as you!!!
A big attraction of Edinburgh University is the ability to combine your course with literally anything for the first year... I hope to study Scots Gaelic alongside Linguistics and Chinese next year!
I have been learning Scottish Gaelic for almost two years now, I understood about 15% of what he said lol...long road ahead. It's a marathon, not a race...beag air bheag.
little by little! I understood that!
What a beautiful language! It would be such a shame to let this language die and disappear from the treasure trove of human achievements and creations.
The subtitles tell a strange and wondrous tale of hoppers, and a man who told him a beer, and the Queen who apparently had more hoppers with her army in York. Meanwhile, Leah was at her piano and was OK with it, despite the senseless and tragic murder in Claddagh. But yet: Muhammadu...minorities in Moscow are speared...a has-been music industry cock...Huskies are shot for being a bitch (about 10). Kitty Lea Alec called back about the petunia; it was her last tournament. He was addictive, which was a heinous scare - but not to Kate Mulgrew, who first met him while sharing a skid. He told her: "Hi, I'm for the hill, and Mister P.M...." Meanwhile, in East Hot Catahoula (certainly our newest), a man said, exasperated, "No, the point is, are you gonna kiss Kara? I gotta cook a 10-year-old at Gurnick!" "I'm a physician...it will be okay," came the reply. Strangely, it was found that hiscock in gallic could effect her in a tuneful-ish way. Yet this was of no concern to the Mammoth Cave cultists, who felt excluded from law school. A person of color, who was schooled in the pleasant mid-May temperature, was blamed. Ms. Alec made another appearance, but she could not sea urchin, of course.
And that's just the first episode!
Years ago, I bought the Language 30 tapes on Gaelic (Irish dialect). And the tapes on Thai. Thanks to Language 30, I am now completely confused in four different languages.
Sounds like a great movie!
I’ve heard stories of those East Hot Catahoulans... They sound pretty terrifying.
Cooking a 10-year-old at Gurnick? What is this world coming to??
Okay... RUclips subtitles are no help with this.
Guitcad1 They're helping me die of laughter.
Go to settings button (next to the CC button) and select the 'English Auto Generated' option. Have fun.
Auto generated titles are barely accurate. They just type out based off the sound
you can hear the hebrides
I love the beauty of Gaelic. It's such a lovely language.
Love anyone of Celtic origin whether it be Irish , Scottish or Welsh
@@mikhailabunidal9146 or Cornish, Manx or Breton. :)
@@andrewjennings7306 Or Galician!
I'm an Irish speaker and this is really enjoyable to listen to for comparison sake. I got the Teach Yourself book and made some headway. I must give it another shot.
Ah, Scottish Gaelic: it's easier from an Irish perspective if you think of it as basically Donegal Irish with all the consonants devoiced.
How much can you understand?
@@Philoglossos i speak Ulster Irish (the commenter above calls it Donegal Irish because Donegal is the only county in Ulster with an existing and thriving Gaeltacht, however its Ulster irish nonetheless) and i understand a fair bit hahaha not all of it but a lot of it
What a gorgeous language.
crying at the subtitles lmaoooo
+Juniorfoxnetdude I just went and turned the subtitles on... Great, now I got distracted and lost track of what he's talking about. It's seems scandalous with the subtitles on!
thank you. this is amazing
The sewers key you a headache.
"Oh, it was an ischemic opera cake..."
"she asked ten change a to the Fuhrer Farah his camera item yo hot body human visa the garlic who is Thomas each dad a kid a half-friend ago I'm a Lewis it was still avi acquaintance you garlic give us a quarter and a garlic could York my friendly garlic is the makinia the bureau Wayne Roscoe is an original halation appear in the sky from garlic with Tina foolish i was screwed another cave camicus Roscoe and Lila mega it was scholar" just a short excerpt of the subtitles.
Beautiful...
"yo hot body human"
a round of applause to CC
Hugs from Brazil, Scotch friends!
Br tá em todo lugar
@@ionerosin2523 Nós surgimos por brotamento espontâneo. É uma coisa impressionante.
@@apostoladonossasenhoradoro3437 podemos estar em QUALQUER lugar kkkk
@@ionerosin2523 kkkkkkkk sim. Somos o Julius. Pensou que eu tava brincando?
@@apostoladonossasenhoradoro3437 sempre q vc ler os comentários....eu vou estar lá
Everyone - before you start, find the 'settings' button (right next to the CC button) find the 'subtitles' option, and select the option 'English Auto Generated'. Have fun!
Beautiful language.
Fantastic!!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
it Sounds lovely
Ooh, love it!! ❤️❤️❤️
I love the language of my country and ancestors, but turn on the auto generated captions, it’s hilarious.
You mean the language of Irish settlers? :) The ancestral language is pictish.
@@basileus-pr6jh Nonsense. nobody really knows what Pictish is let alone where it was spoken, whereas we know Scottish Gaelic was at the very least spoken in Argyll for thousands of years. and the division between "Irish settlers" and "Pictish ancestors" is a modern nationalistic idea that the people back then would be unlikely to even understand
@@basileus-pr6jhnobody knows anything about Pictish lmao. Shut the fuck up
As an American who of partial Scottish heritage, I have to say that the
language is beautiful to hear.
I'm an American that has been tracing back my family history. We have very strong Scottish, Irish, English and Danish ties. I've been intersted in learning my family's ancestral languages and this is awesome to hear. I can only do basic greetings and a few other words so far. But I'd love to pass down the knowledge of this culture to my son one day.
Glè mhath!
American nation doesn't exist.
my big part of my ancestry is in northern scottland. I have to learn. everybody in my family line is Scottish or irish except for my great grandma who is german.
my family is part of clann andrais in the vicinity of tain, ross-shire a ways north of inverness, i’ve been working on and off on learning gàidhlig for a while and it just feels so right
i’ll tell you something funny, couldn’t understand a word of it without subtitles, but as soon as i turned them on, i was understanding almost all of it! much love from ireland, our languages are a little similar!
Class 👍
Labhraím gaeilge agus thuigim an chuid is mó dá raibh á rá aige. Gaeilge and scottish gaelic are very similar.
They should be. The Scots are basically Irish who mixed with the Picts and sometimes the Norse.
Lots of resources are out there now for us of the diaspora who are interested in learning our ancestors language. Google translate even has Gàidhlig now!
I couldn’t agree more
Thank God someone still speaks Gaelic without the ugly English "r" and generally butchering the pronunciation! Cheers for Mr John
*Cusses you out in Assamese (one of the few languages who dares to be ugly and proud in the way of the Anglos and the Sponge)*
@@e-memes808 sponge?
What a sneering attitude. Better someone speaks it with a foreign accent than not at all.
@@aleksandramakari ruclips.net/video/-N0yXGVWS1Y/видео.html
It’s called an accent and those make people unique
auto-generated caps at 1:17
"we leap and up with her sleepy garlic ooh la la"
lmaaoooo
No wonder irish and scottish people get on so well. So much alike
'Cause Scots were once Irish. ;)
@@The_Gallowglass other way round. the mythical gaels colonizing scotland is a made up tale by irish medieval monks to give ireland an identity.
we actually don't get on lol
@@silverkitty2503 yes we do
@@fioralbannach6647 you sure (im from ireland by the way) there is the whole celtic rangers thing! but happy to get along with anyone who gets along with me!
Awesome ! 😤
I hear my grand father speak this once, it sounded so strange I wasn't sure it was a real laugage.
Turn on auto generated subtitles and enjoy.
I like the part about the "ischemic opera cake."
This is the Iain that Duolingo keeps talking about.
To me Welsh reminds me a bit of Dutch, as well as Scottish Gaelic does!
"Garlic with Tina" sounds like the sequel to "Breakfast at Tiffany's." Thanks CC
Well, thats the one thing we've got. 😉
Timestamp? Where does it say "Garlic with Tina"?
@@Connie_TinuityError 2:16
Preserve the beautiful Scottish Heritage and Culture!!!
Hello , I am wondering if there is a web site that I could hear how spicific scots gaelic words sound? I also want to confirm the correctness of the words . So the two things I would like to know about is "hold fast" as in the MacLeod motto = chumail gu Luath, and Scottish = Albannach?
I just love this language so much. Don't understand a word. But I love it.
As an irish person it sounds like a welsh person speaking irish but i can make words out
My grandmother is Irish and Scottish, and she speaks Gaeilge as well as a bit of Gàidhlig. She tells me that Gaeilge and Gàidhlig are quite similar and differ mainly in spelling, pronunciation, and vocabulary. I speak a bit of Gaeilge, but no Gàidhlig, so I can't say anything firsthand.
I'm just a curious by-passer and lover of languages, as someone completely unfamiliar with Gaelic this sounded somewhat Dutch to me! : )
As someone who has learned Dutch to a reasonable level, I can tell you it is nothing like it at all. The only similarity is the fricative/guttural consonants, which you also get in many other languages (e.g. German, Welsh, Arabic, Hebrew, et al).
@@DieFlabbergast Maybe not common Dutch, but Vries
Nee het klinkt meer als een dronken Luxembourgse man
We need to keep interest inGaelic going.
It did sound something like that in Outlander
When did gaelic stop being commonly spoken in the Glasgow region? I asked my grandparents (born in the early '30s), before they died, but they did really give me a clear answer.
There was gaelic communities that moved from the Highlands and Islands that brought Gaelic with them, still present today, but it’s not been natively spoken in glasgow for a long time I think
I think the generated translation is channeling something otherworldly! 😂😂😂
I've bumped into loads and loads of people speaking Welsh to each other but I've never seen an Irish or Scottish speaking person, there's obviously a real shortage of them in terms of speakers.
actually original Britains were speaking Celtic language...after migration and rule of Germanic anglo-saxons and Norwegians...The local Britain's migrated to Brittany which is now a French territory across English channel...the remaining Britain's natives lost their original language with gradual integration with Anglo-Saxons which were germanic languages..So English is germanic language...while their neighbors scottish,Irish,welsh,Manx,cornish etc are Celtic languages...The original Bretons who are original habitants of Britain still speak breton a Celtic language in a province called Brittany in france...
I have heard Scottish Gaelic was German influenced whereas Irish Gaelic was Latin influenced. The man was a historian so I don't know his sources. However, I am studying German and know that a lot of my Scottish pals use the word 'ken' for know (in the Scots dialect) and the German word for know is kenne. Not exactly sure about Gaelic but would like to know more if anyone has resources. Thanks!
But don't forget that Insular Celts were Asturians and Gallaecians whom crossed the Cantabric Sea to the north 3500 years ago
@@Sylkenwolf I think Scots is heavily influenced, but the Gaelic is a very different animal.
@@Sylkenwolf You're talking about Scots, which is a sister language of English. Scots was not influenced by German it is just more conservative and less latinized than English. It also has lots of norse loanwords
@@gonzalosanchezblanco6598 this!
I haven't the slightest idea what the hell he was saying but the numerous comments sure have me in stitches. My aunt who was born in Dufftown took me on a vacation there where they make the ouisky or uisge, and even when they spoke English I couldn't understand them. And I speak English. Who knew? But I marveled at the town and its people. Very good but all too brief memories of that place.
they probably spoke Doric!
Sounds similar in tone and (some) sounds to Scandinavian languages. Interesting.
Det gör det heller inte
he loves to eat Garlic
Oh my days! I had no idea Scotland had a Gaelic language till today!
Getting freaked out because I'm Irish and I can understand a good bit of it.
Kirsty de Paor basically the same language
This explains how the Faroese language became like it is. It sounds like icelandic spoken in Gaelic.
Very similar to Gailge (Irish).
Very beautiful sounding language, like Irish. Both Irish and Scots Gaelic sound lighter and more sonorous than my native Welsh language, as if there's more light and shade in the vowels.
to me welsh sounds much lighter than irish (im irish)
Feel the language in my throat
I always like to see if I can pick up any words, like loan words, names of places or people etc. Here, I think I just caught "Gaelic". I know that Gaelic is Indo-European, but it doesn't sound familiar at all. It might as well be Sanskrit or Farsi, I would understand just as much :D
Why do people say this sounds like a Germanic language even though it's a Celtic language? The only cognate I can find between Scottish and various Germanic languages is the word for "hello".
Tha mi eòlach air Iain - tha mi a' fuireach ann an Glaschu (no faisg air làimh) agus tha esan ag obair aig Comhairle nan Leabhraichean, mar a tha e ag ràdh anns a' bhideo. Beag air bheag is urrainn dhomh barrachd is barrachd dhen bhideo seo (agus de bhidiothan eile) a thuigsinn. Suas leis a' Ghàidhlig 🙂
Austin Waddell Said Phoenicians settled The British Isles. These old scottish and irish languages have some similarity to phoenician. But that one had an older and newer way to Be spoken. These scottish and irish languages could Be derived from older phoenician.
Pleaee turn on auto generated captions for this video. 100% lol
i can understand for the most part being an irish gaelic speaker
sounds like a softer and ancient version of Dutch
Leapin up with her sleepy garlic ooh la
Celtic 🇨🇮🏴🏴🏴👍👍👍
As someone with Scottish ancestry, I’ve always wanted to learn Gaelic but I have no idea how to start
I started with Duolingo, a good baseline just to get used to the sound and how sentences form- and I also have a few textbooks from the nineties my mum kept from when she tried to learn. I’m still looking for other ways to supplement this, but short of moving back to Scotland pronto it’s a little difficult.
Duolingo is a good baseline! Learn Gaelic and Misneachd na h-Alba on RUclips are good sources, too. You'd probably find a lot of sources if you just searched "Scottish Gaelic resources" or "where can I learn Scottish Gaelic"
there seems to be a lot of h sounds and gh slightly gargle sounds similar to french.
Tapadh leibh Iain. Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig ann an Cumar nan Allt.
I want to learn
God would I Love to speak my native tongue !! Buaidh !! ( Vicotry) IM an American,yet I can roll Me "R's" til the cows come home. Gotta keep at it. Love the Video. thank you Sir!!
Any fellow scotts who don't speak gaelic or am I just an uncultured swine?
Learn Gaelic! The survival of a language depends on the community.
No, but you could brush up on your spelling.
The worst part is there are barely any learning sources compared to other languages like even Irish, there are Irish duolingo courses and stuff but no Scottish.
@@bouncinbetty2032 Have Duolingo just launched a Gàidhlig course?
@@bouncinbetty2032 Doulingo is working on Scottish Gealic right now actually, it should be available next July
No idea what he's saying, but this seems pretty legit. :)
I have been learning this language and uhhhhh I apparently have a looooong way to go.
you can do it!!
"we leap and up with her sleepy garlic oh la la"
Very few frequent speakers
Iam crying literally..... when our ancestors came to America we lost it all. I have the deepest hole in my heart. Don't take me wrong iam not clear of the circumstances of why we came but the hole remains.
Why don't you learn Gaelic then? 🙂
does anyone know a Scottish Gaelic translation for "On one hand, and on the other hand."
"Air an dàrna làimh, agus air an làimh eile."
1:41 *turn on subtitles* "did u give her an inch"
he said "there are plenty of Gaels around, if for example you go down to the pub" lol
so nordic, like finnish and swedish!
And I'll upper a Gallic Yorker too!
I’m mostly scottish I wish to learn this language.
Do it!