I once met an old man working as a tour guide in the Kyle of Lochalsh near Skye. I had been learning Gaelic for about a year or so, and I was attempting to translate a Gaelic sign to a friend of mine. He had heard me, came over to us and greeted me in Gaelic. His accent was very strong, so strong we were forced to conduct most of our conversation in English as I could not really understand him in Gaelic. He told me about how when he was a boy in Skye schoolteachers would beat him with a stick for speaking Gaelic in class and as such he had never learned to read or write in Gaelic, he only knew it from speaking it to his parents at home. He was a fascinating fellow but I could tell there was a real sadness about him. Part of the final generation of a dwindling Gàidhealtachd on Skye, forced to speak a foreign tongue his whole life, unable to communicate with even his own family in anything but English. A tragic story told over and over again across Scotland.
Similar stories among Ireland and Northern Ireland, and parts of Wales too. Here's hoping all these beautiful languages make a revival and return to their people stronger than ever, lest they be lost forever.
Same in Brittany, there were a punition that, if you speak Breton, you would have a "symbol". If you see someone in your school speaking Breton, you have to give him the "symbol" and, if you have it at the end of the day, you would be punished severely (chores, extra homework, corporal punishment, detentions, a general mockery session organised by the teacher, fines, etc.) And of course, long live France for teaching these non-French speaking peasants about civilisation and the sublime French language !
Don't forget your cousins down in Wales too! Welsh might not be intelligible to the Gaelic languages but we'll always stand by our Gaelic brothers and sisters, as well as our fellow Brythonic siblings, all as Celts! And regardless of what Country we belong to, we will always be proud to be Celtic!
@@Account_defunct Merlin's prophecy states that Arthur will be resurrected by a King who will unite all Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Brittany, and even Northern England in revolt against the tyrannical Southern England at the End of the world.
My grandpa spoke this fluently and taught me and my sisters in fact so much so he forbade my parents from speaking English to us for a bit (what grandpa said goes lol RIP Grandpa, a stubborn Scotsman to the end). I never learned to read or wrote Scottish Gaelic sadly but I'm trying. My speaking isn't as good either since we switched to English at age 6. (I grew up in the US)
There's no independence without the national language and culture. If Scotland wants real independence, the Scottish people should raise a generation of Gaelic speaking people in Gaelic schools and Gaelic Universities.
As of 2011, there are about 57,000 native speakers of Scottish Gaelic left. We need to help the language survive for many more centuries like we did with the Welsh. Fada Beò Alba! Mòran Gràdh às na Stàitean Aonaichte! 🏴❤️🇺🇸
@@Terralncognitano they weren’t. They were a tribe from a land now known as Ireland. There was no such thing as Irish back then It’s would be like saying the Picts were a Scottish tribe. Scotland wasn’t established yet. So technically they were Scots in what is called Ireland today.
‘S e cànan brèagha a th’ ann an Gàidhlig agus tha mi a’ smaoineachd gu Gàidhlig glè chudromach airson alba agus ar cultar. Gaelic is a beautiful language and I think that Gaelic is very important for Scotland and our culture.
Of course Gaelic is important. With a language, a culture; a group of people with beliefs. Dying and indigenous languages should be treated better. Love to Scotland from Asturias, having a similar language death case.
@@Zangooserr just because people claim to be able to speak it doesn't mean they accually know it. A lot of people just know some simple words but wouldn't be able to have a more complicated conversation. Plus only 2% of Irish people speaks it daily. In Wales however Welsh in commonly used. With 30% of people being able to speak it and 16% speaking it daily and 5% weekly
Simply beautiful.. Scotland has some beautiful songs too.. Please, people of Scotland, preserve Scottish Gaelic, for it is part of your heritage, and your heritage is beautiful.
My mother is from Scotland, I’ve visited my grandparents in Scotland many times, Scotland will always have a special place in my heart. 🏴🏴🏴
@@iamasalad9080 That means, this Gaelic "Scottish" language is as foreign as anglo-saxon English. Anyways, half of lowland Scotland is itself Anglo-Saxon, descendants of the Northumbrians who settled there (the Scots).
This is a song about Glen Coe, south-east of Fort William. Recently, a friend of mine and his son were killed in a mountaineering accident on Glen Coe. RIP Tom and Richie, 30/5/24
Though I’m not full blooded Scot only partial, but I sympathize with the native speakers of the highlands of Scotland and the other Celtic peoples of Europe that still managed to keep their heritage alive through their language.
Once I tried to learn Irish, expressed by its beauty, but I had not enough time and had to stop. After some time I lost my enthusiasm and forgot this idea. But now I hear this song and think: I must continue what I've started
For some reason I listen to this song several nights a week before sleeping. It brings me a time of peace and remberance of when I visited Scotland. My family hails from Scotland. More specifically, Western Scotland around the Isle of Mull and Lock Lomand. I so want to return before I pass onto the next world. I live in NC, USA and the mountains are very much like Scotland. Keep the language and culture alive. It is needed to maintain the true heritage of one of the most beautiful ancient countries. If you happen to be living in Scotland, please don't disregard your heritage because it is priceless. And perhaps Scotland will regain it's Freedom, should God will it.
I was born in Canada, but my Grandma was born in Scotland. I am about 60% Scottish and love the Country way more than other countries! Love from a fellow Scottish Man :)
@@scottnewton9060 15 years ago, no one here would've considered that Punjabi Rajput in Holyrood a Scot, either. The landscape is pretty, but the soil isn't magic.
@@scottnewton9060He is only a descendant, so does that mean that Scotland does not even consider American Scots as children of Scots who came to the Americas?
Mom told me how in Soviet times, we were forced to speak Russian even if we didn’t want to. They told us: if you speak Kazakh, then you are plotting something bad. It is indeed very sad when an oppressed people wants to speak their own language, but cannot. And now many of us hardly speak Kazakh.
Not that strange. Just odd if you are not used to it. The most important thing is that any letter followed by an h, is not written phonetically. Rather like an umlaut in German, the h indicates a set of sound changes. In all the other Celtic languages these sounds are just written as pronounced. Add to that the fact that dh and th have changed over time, and all consonants (except labials) have two values, according to the neighbouring vowel, just like a c in English can be as in code or cede depending on the vowel. You will also hear that the d and t, when next to an e or i are like the d in the way som people pronounce duty and in lecture. The same thing has happened in some Brazilian dialects. chagaraich seems to be a typo for chagarsaich, and maybe the same thing has happened with glagaraich (which is obviously meant to rhyme but I do not know the word and nor does my dictionary).
I took a series of classes in Scots Gaelic back in the Nineties. The teacher was leader of a Gaelic singing group called Keltoi. I have a couple of their CDs, one of which includes this song. It is a favorite of mine.
I come from the french region of Alsace, where the native language, alsatian, is slowly disappearing. The threat of extinction of regional languages seem to be a common point between France and the UK. I hope all our threatened languages will one day seriously be revived. Also, long live free Scotland ❤🏴🇪🇺
respect the fact most of scotland doesnt want to leave the union. Its insulting when people like you say ''long live free scotland'' when most dont want to leave and you belittle their views
🏔♥️🏴 Greetings to the Scots from the North Caucasus. For us, you are brothers, since you are also mountaineers. Many of our peoples, like you, have forgotten their language during the years of the rule of foreigners, but this is not a reason to give up - look at the Jews who revived their language! I think we should strive for that. (P.S. I'm sorry if there are mistakes, I wrote it through a translator)
@Марк Лепић Карачай. Что касается евреев - я в принципе согласен, однако все же им удалось фактически с нуля восстановить свой язык, что я считаю должны сделать и шотландцы, ну и наши народы.
My great grandmother died a few days ago. We buried her today. Before we lowered her into the earth, I sang this song to her as a song of hope that this is what she sees now. Home in heaven. I miss you Grandma Muzz. Be at peace
I love Scotland, it's a very beautiful country. Gaelic is a very beautiful language, it's just a pity that so few people speak it and that it is disappearing.
I've been learning Gàidhlig and Gaelge and this is my 6th song that I'm learning to sing, its actually quite easy to learn, takes me about a week or less to learn a new song practicing about 40 minutes or more a day (I learn on my drive home from work, or during work). My mothers side ancestry is from Scotland and maybe some Irish, my family came to to southeastern Ohio so I'm Appalachian. Knowing these old mountains were shared pre pangea makes me feel more connected to my roots. I adore these languages and the land and find it therapeutic to speak in other languages and hope I can become proficient and help people to see its not as difficult as they say.
Make Scotland speak Gaelic (and Scots) again and make Ireland speak Irish and Wales speak Welsh and Cornwall speak Cornish and Brittany speak Breton and I hope those people in Nova Scotia can speak their Gaelic too. Edit: The Isle of Man should speak Manx.
Welsh is accually spoken by a lot of people in Wales around 30% of Welsh people can speak Welsh with 16% of people using it daily and 5% weekly and those numbers will probably increase in the future
No, keep them where they culturally belong. You force this on the south we'll say fuck you, we were part of Northumbria not the tiny pockets of gaidhlig and scots-ified English. Accept that a majority of us shouldn't have the languages of less than 4% of the country forced into our lives and culture when it never was part of our region's history.
I'm a brazilian portuguese descent without relation with the Scotland or Celtic culture, but I am crying listening this song and I don't now the why. Beautiful culture! Keep your language Scotland, is beautiful. ❤🏴
Im nordic I just really enjoy hearing Celtic and Gaelic its truely beautiful I would learn one of their languages if it wasnt for the fact I would have no one to Converse it with
@@wormy3811 oh yeah sorry its beacuse we colonized and Allied with you lads. Im Heattic (Norwegian-Geatish) and we took great part in the North Sea expansion
My great great grandparents migrated to the UK from Iran in the 1500's all my life I have lived in scotland I speak romani and english my ancestors have lived here for ages alongside their kin traveling in tribes across the highlands. All my life I've been called a gypsy and i've been isolated from the land i call my home even though we've lived here for generations I am Scottish
England hasnt done shit to Scotland. Scots want to be victims so much despite contributing a massive amount to the British Empire. Guess who colonized Ireland, (hint: it wasnt the english)
The fact that most scots these days (my self included) cannae speak our native tounge is truly depressing that we're forced to speak a toung that aint our own
Tbf you aren't forced too, it's just society has moved away from gaidhlig to English. If you are from Edinburgh I don't think gaidhlig reached that far anyway.
@@hugepumpkin8094 It did. That's why there are many Gaelic placenames like Inverleith and Corstorphine. Drive between the airport and the city centre and you'll see quite a few more. On the other side of the Southern Uplands getting quite close to the borders, you'll still find Gaelic-named towns like Innerleithen (Inver+leithen).
Greetings to all my Scottish mates from the heart of Caucasus,Azerbaijan Embrace your culture,lads,and revive your language as the Israelis did!🏴🇦🇿
This is a general muster call to anyone, Celtic or no, to learn their heritage language. Even if it’s only pleasantries and place-names, learn your heritage language. That goes for Irish, Scots, Welsh, Cornish, Manx, Bretons, Faroese, Native of America, Oceania, and Siberia, Africans, anyone. Don’t let your culture’s language die with you.
The elvish language in those books is heavily based off of Scottish Gaelic and welsh. The elves themselves are pretty heavily based off of Irish, Scottish and welsh tales of the goodfolk (fae).
Hearing this beautiful singing makes me realize the real tragedy in Scotland, before I thought the fight for Scottish independence was simply due to an anti-English sentiment, now I know not just what they're attacking, but what they are defending as well. In other words, I realize that Scottish separatists are fighting to protect a beautiful dying language.
@@hugepumpkin8094 your wrong Scots hate the English for suppressing our culture and people go read about the Highland clearances if you want to know more about the genocide Scotland has been subjected to under English rule
Stuff like this makes me wish I chose Gaelic instead of French in S1, but here I am a few years later doing nat5 French and not knowing a single word of Gaelic.
I feel the same thing about Irish I only had a year of learning it but per pressure turned me of of it for a year or two, but theres a whole life time to learn it, you shouldn't give up on learning Gaelic
I finished school in 2021 and now starting my 3rd year of university soon and I wish my school taught gaelic because I would really like to learn it but it seems it is now only taught in gaelic schools and in the highlands, very hard for us folks from the central belt to learn our native language let alone use it due to the lack of speakers
I'm learning Scottish Gaelic and Irish, because of Gael heritage. I have an Irish friend, and he is also learning Irish alongside me. Sadly no one to speak Scottish Gaelic to though.
I once met an old man working as a tour guide in the Kyle of Lochalsh near Skye. I had been learning Gaelic for about a year or so, and I was attempting to translate a Gaelic sign to a friend of mine. He had heard me, came over to us and greeted me in Gaelic. His accent was very strong, so strong we were forced to conduct most of our conversation in English as I could not really understand him in Gaelic. He told me about how when he was a boy in Skye schoolteachers would beat him with a stick for speaking Gaelic in class and as such he had never learned to read or write in Gaelic, he only knew it from speaking it to his parents at home. He was a fascinating fellow but I could tell there was a real sadness about him. Part of the final generation of a dwindling Gàidhealtachd on Skye, forced to speak a foreign tongue his whole life, unable to communicate with even his own family in anything but English. A tragic story told over and over again across Scotland.
Similar stories among Ireland and Northern Ireland, and parts of Wales too. Here's hoping all these beautiful languages make a revival and return to their people stronger than ever, lest they be lost forever.
Wait I get not writing because maybe there are some accents at such but reading should be ok if you know English and the Roman alphabet
Same in Brittany, there were a punition that, if you speak Breton, you would have a "symbol". If you see someone in your school speaking Breton, you have to give him the "symbol" and, if you have it at the end of the day, you would be punished severely (chores, extra homework, corporal punishment, detentions, a general mockery session organised by the teacher, fines, etc.)
And of course, long live France for teaching these non-French speaking peasants about civilisation and the sublime French language !
yep
So sad...
Celtic brothers till the end. Our Gaelic languages and cultures will forever live on. 🇮🇪🤝🏴
love my Irish brothers!!! Ireland and Scotland forever
Don't forget your cousins down in Wales too! Welsh might not be intelligible to the Gaelic languages but we'll always stand by our Gaelic brothers and sisters, as well as our fellow Brythonic siblings, all as Celts! And regardless of what Country we belong to, we will always be proud to be Celtic!
@@0Zero_I view the Irish Welsh Cornish Manx & Breton as our Celtic brothers, coming from a Weegie Scot
Um, English is just going to join the Germanic but they won’t let us in, sooooo, could we join the celts, we definitely wont try to kill your language
@@Account_defunct Merlin's prophecy states that Arthur will be resurrected by a King who will unite all Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Brittany, and even Northern England in revolt against the tyrannical Southern England at the End of the world.
Nice to see some Scottish Gaelic! I’m currently learning Scottish Gaelic and I like it.
I wish I could. I know some but find it difficult (I am a Gael)
@@jacobite2353 duolingo has it I believe
@@historyhayden Yep. Trying to learn it there
@@jacobite2353 nice
Ionnsaich nas Gàidhlig an dràsta fhèin!
They should bring this back in Schools in Scotland it's our Language.
There's a guy I know who can spek Gaelic
@@comradekenobi6908 brilliant
It would be better than the minimal amount of french they taught us
My grandpa spoke this fluently and taught me and my sisters in fact so much so he forbade my parents from speaking English to us for a bit (what grandpa said goes lol RIP Grandpa, a stubborn Scotsman to the end). I never learned to read or wrote Scottish Gaelic sadly but I'm trying. My speaking isn't as good either since we switched to English at age 6. (I grew up in the US)
There's no independence without the national language and culture. If Scotland wants real independence, the Scottish people should raise a generation of Gaelic speaking people in Gaelic schools and Gaelic Universities.
That's the first time I hear Scottish Gaelic. It's amazing
As of 2011, there are about 57,000 native speakers of Scottish Gaelic left. We need to help the language survive for many more centuries like we did with the Welsh.
Fada Beò Alba! Mòran Gràdh às na Stàitean Aonaichte! 🏴❤️🇺🇸
When I translate the scottish part of your post to english it changed the scottish flag to an english flag lol.
Isn't it funny how translating it to English changes the Scottish flag to the English flag?
@@majesticmartian7038 Holy crap, we posted the exact same thing at the exact same time.
Why Google Translate translates Scottish flag into flag of England?
@@samuelsamuelson372 lol
I, as a Scot, have been in England the past week and I have been missing home (it's too warm down south)
cheers fae posting this!
Based nova scotian pfp
@@andrewjennings7306 truly based
@@Eoghainn if only I knew the word for based in gaelic.
Scottish Gaelic is simply beautiful
Same with Irish Gaelic
Flamengo.
@@sebby324 Gaeilge*
@Taivas0 Yeah. The Scots were an Irish tribe
@@Terralncognitano they weren’t. They were a tribe from a land now known as Ireland. There was no such thing as Irish back then It’s would be like saying the Picts were a Scottish tribe. Scotland wasn’t established yet.
So technically they were Scots in what is called Ireland today.
‘S e cànan brèagha a th’ ann an Gàidhlig agus tha mi a’ smaoineachd gu Gàidhlig glè chudromach airson alba agus ar cultar.
Gaelic is a beautiful language and I think that Gaelic is very important for Scotland and our culture.
Of course Gaelic is important. With a language, a culture; a group of people with beliefs. Dying and indigenous languages should be treated better. Love to Scotland from Asturias, having a similar language death case.
I love Scotland. I am from Egypt. I wish the independence of Scotland, Wales and Ireland from evil Britain 🇪🇬🇪🇬❤️🤝🇮🇪🏴🏴
Tha! Tha mi ag ionnsachadh a-nis. Tha mi airson sgrìobhadh sa Ghàidhlig.
When you think about it, it's weird to hear some people to speak their native tongue, but normal to speak a completely different language
Occupation is the dominant factor here
basically every celtic country except Wales
@@ermin2248 yep
@@ermin2248 what about ireland 40% of ireland speak Irish and 10% in northern ireland (which is alot considering its history)
@@Zangooserr just because people claim to be able to speak it doesn't mean they accually know it. A lot of people just know some simple words but wouldn't be able to have a more complicated conversation. Plus only 2% of Irish people speaks it daily. In Wales however Welsh in commonly used. With 30% of people being able to speak it and 16% speaking it daily and 5% weekly
Tha mi toilichte a' cluintinn òrain Ghàidhlig an seo. Tapadh math leibh is slàinte gu a' chànan mhàthaireil!
Tá an t-amhrán seo go hálainn! 🇮🇪🏴
What a beautiful song.
Greetings from France.
May the Old Alliance stay strong between our countries ! 🇫🇷🤝🏻🏴
@Марк Лепић its good that britain won
Bretons : am I aa joke to you?
So,are we just going to ignore the things what the French state did to Bretons?
Yep long live Scotland and France from France
The Gaelic People won't forget Britanny.
This is first time I hear a Scottish sound, long live Scotland from Vietnam 🇻🇳 🤝🏴
Why the Yugoslavia profile pic
Being part Irish I give my Respect to my Scottish Brothers! May the Future be bright to Scotland!
cool!
I'm part irish and part scottish (also part maori)
James VI
@@Dryhten1801 lmfao based
And to you.❤
Real language of Scotland!🏴
This and Scots as well
@@MassachusettsTrainVideos1136 well technically, Scots was created from old English which was the invader
@@superpangamer And technically the Scots Gaels came from Ireland, which were the invaders from the Pictish point of view.
And technically homo sapienses were invaders, who destroyed neanderthals, the natives of this land
@@numega7323 and pictish language is sadly dead I think
I’m from Scotland I can confidently say I have never heard this song before. Cool to be surprised by something from my own country
Tha 🙂
I can connect to it in Chile 🇨🇱 our mountains are very similar
@@chad2522 love Chile! from Scotland!
🇨🇱💪🏴
@@chocolateneko9912 Likewise 🇨🇱❤️🏴
You know Gaelic?
Simply beautiful.. Scotland has some beautiful songs too.. Please, people of Scotland, preserve Scottish Gaelic, for it is part of your heritage, and your heritage is beautiful.
A little more and all Brits will only speak English
My mother is from Scotland, I’ve visited my grandparents in Scotland many times, Scotland will always have a special place in my heart. 🏴🏴🏴
Dia daoibh mo deartháireacha Albanacha, tá dóchas agam don Ghàidhlig agus don Ghaeilge. Grá ó Éirinn! 🇮🇪💚💙🏴
tá mise ó éiré freisin. dia dhuit mo chara!
Us English people aren’t that different from Irish People, eh?
@@SchizoidCajetanian what are you trying to say? English people are nothing like Irish people
Deas an oiread sin teachtaireachtaí as Gaolainn a fheiscint anso
@@SchizoidCajetanian ok, lets see if you can speak irish then?
Scotland must be one of the most loved countries ever. I for sure can say my heart wears a saltire. Alba gu bràth 🏴
Proud of my Scottish Heritage!
are you american
@@irishgigachad2347 he's either american or canadian
@@jk-gb4et nah canadians dont give a fuck. hes 100% american. if hes canadian then hes just special
I'd be proud of mine if we stop blaming all our crimes against humanity on England
Slàinte gu sin, a charaid! Cheers to that, friend
Greetings from Brittany. Celt heritage must be preserved everywhere.
lol your heritage is mud huts
@@thefuryofthedragon8715you say you're Aryan Pakistani? I believe it's the other way round my friend
@@thefuryofthedragon8715 cope Mohammadian
we both need to keep our language alive, i encourage you to learn breton if you havent already
What amazing! half past twelve in Spain and after hearing this I'm going to fall asleep...😂❤🏴
Vive l’Écosse 🇫🇷❤️🏴
Amen
Et vive l'Alliance !
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The Scottish Highlands look peaceful :)
Celtic songs in general have that melow theme into it which is nice
Seo linn's rendition of Óró, sé do bheatha 'bhaile has entered the chat
This had reawakened my will to learn about Scotland
@Penderyn What does that have to do with anything?
@@iamasalad9080 That means, this Gaelic "Scottish" language is as foreign as anglo-saxon English. Anyways, half of lowland Scotland is itself Anglo-Saxon, descendants of the Northumbrians who settled there (the Scots).
@@road-eo6911 Yeah but what does it have to do with this comment?
@Penderyn yes, It's a shame that some of them have died out, such as Pictish
@@irishakita Very sad
This song is so beautiful! Love to Scotland from Canada! 🇨🇦❤️🏴
Long live Scotland! I love this song, Scotland is such a fascinating and wonderful place, I wish to go there.
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Awesome, keep your celtic culture alive guys, greetings from lower Brittany.
Oh, this song is so beautiful. I love the way you sing it. Thank you.
Just realised that this is Brian Ó hEadhra singing...
This is a song about Glen Coe, south-east of Fort William. Recently, a friend of mine and his son were killed in a mountaineering accident on Glen Coe.
RIP Tom and Richie, 30/5/24
Rest in Peace.
I remember reading about this. Very sad my condolences. May they Rest in Peace.
'S e àite gruamach le eachdraidh dhorcha a th ann an Gleann Comhann.
Scotland is a country I love 🇬🇷❤️🏴
love Greece as well, epic country 🇬🇷💪🏴
Region*
@Llort Scotland is a region in UK u dumb 😂😂
@@Michael_Artilleryman Scotland is a country though
@@Michael_ArtillerymanScotland is one of 4 recognised countries in the union of the uk and N Ireland
So please stop talking shite
I’m an American and I have Irish blood. I will gladly join our Scottish brothers for we are the Celts! 🏴🇮🇪🇺🇸
A beautiful place with a lot of things I liked it 🇲🇽🤝🏴
Though I’m not full blooded Scot only partial, but I sympathize with the native speakers of the highlands of Scotland and the other Celtic peoples of Europe that still managed to keep their heritage alive through their language.
Once I tried to learn Irish, expressed by its beauty, but I had not enough time and had to stop. After some time I lost my enthusiasm and forgot this idea. But now I hear this song and think: I must continue what I've started
this is Scottish Gaelic..
@@irishgigachad2347 I know
@@fingolphine this isnt irish
@@irishgigachad2347 Irish and Scottish gaelic are dialects of the same language lmao, what sort of Irish nationalist are you that you don't know this
@@dresdi Scottish gaelic has been seperated from Ulster Irish since dal riata. thats like 900 years
what a beautiful voice
I love Scotland🇮🇲🤝🏴
Tha gaol agam air Eilean Vannin.
Are you Manx?
God bless Scotland. Love from California. May this beautiful language never die out
For some reason I listen to this song several nights a week before sleeping. It brings me a time of peace and remberance of when I visited Scotland. My family hails from Scotland. More specifically, Western Scotland around the Isle of Mull and Lock Lomand. I so want to return before I pass onto the next world. I live in NC, USA and the mountains are very much like Scotland. Keep the language and culture alive. It is needed to maintain the true heritage of one of the most beautiful ancient countries. If you happen to be living in Scotland, please don't disregard your heritage because it is priceless. And perhaps Scotland will regain it's Freedom, should God will it.
Dammit I just can't count how many times I listened to this song before sleeping
I was born in Canada, but my Grandma was born in Scotland. I am about 60% Scottish and love the Country way more than other countries! Love from a fellow Scottish Man :)
Too bad, but if you are not born in Scotland the Scots don't consider you a Scottish man.
@@scottnewton9060 15 years ago, no one here would've considered that Punjabi Rajput in Holyrood a Scot, either. The landscape is pretty, but the soil isn't magic.
@@scottnewton9060He is only a descendant, so does that mean that Scotland does not even consider American Scots as children of Scots who came to the Americas?
Mom told me how in Soviet times, we were forced to speak Russian even if we didn’t want to. They told us: if you speak Kazakh, then you are plotting something bad. It is indeed very sad when an oppressed people wants to speak their own language, but cannot. And now many of us hardly speak Kazakh.
That’s too bad. Same thing happened in Ireland and Kyrgyzstan.
This process was in Mainland "Russia", in Republics of Siberia, in Idel Ural and in Caucasus
I feel your pain
I like how Irish and Scottish Gaelic have strange consonants pronunciation rules.
Not that strange. Just odd if you are not used to it. The most important thing is that any letter followed by an h, is not written phonetically. Rather like an umlaut in German, the h indicates a set of sound changes. In all the other Celtic languages these sounds are just written as pronounced. Add to that the fact that dh and th have changed over time, and all consonants (except labials) have two values, according to the neighbouring vowel, just like a c in English can be as in code or cede depending on the vowel. You will also hear that the d and t, when next to an e or i are like the d in the way som people pronounce duty and in lecture. The same thing has happened in some Brazilian dialects. chagaraich seems to be a typo for chagarsaich, and maybe the same thing has happened with glagaraich (which is obviously meant to rhyme but I do not know the word and nor does my dictionary).
@@daibhidhrobinson1341 Thanks for the explication!
We used to use the ogham script like 1000 years ago, which actually gave logical pronounciation
In my school my teacher sang this to us its nice to hear this again
Absolument magnifique
It is something of note, when the higher cultures seems to embrace melancholy
Viva la Scozia 🇮🇹🤍🏴
I took a series of classes in Scots Gaelic back in the Nineties. The teacher was leader of a Gaelic singing group called Keltoi. I have a couple of their CDs, one of which includes this song. It is a favorite of mine.
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jokes aside a very calming song
I come from the french region of Alsace, where the native language, alsatian, is slowly disappearing. The threat of extinction of regional languages seem to be a common point between France and the UK. I hope all our threatened languages will one day seriously be revived.
Also, long live free Scotland ❤🏴🇪🇺
For the language to survive, scientific texts must be translated into it (even better when there is no translation into French)
Same with low German, too
@Koentekbyte I agree with you 👍
respect the fact most of scotland doesnt want to leave the union. Its insulting when people like you say ''long live free scotland'' when most dont want to leave and you belittle their views
Ce sont les Alsaciens qui sont responsables de la disparition de leur langue. Mes parents ne me l'ont pas transmis.
🏔♥️🏴 Greetings to the Scots from the North Caucasus. For us, you are brothers, since you are also mountaineers. Many of our peoples, like you, have forgotten their language during the years of the rule of foreigners, but this is not a reason to give up - look at the Jews who revived their language! I think we should strive for that.
(P.S. I'm sorry if there are mistakes, I wrote it through a translator)
@Марк Лепић Карачай.
Что касается евреев - я в принципе согласен, однако все же им удалось фактически с нуля восстановить свой язык, что я считаю должны сделать и шотландцы, ну и наши народы.
Patriotic Yugoslav song: *power!*
Skotish patriotic song: chill bro chill...
Long live Scotland🏴
Alba gu bràth!
Long live to my great-grandfather's homeland from zambia 🇿🇲❤️🏴
this reminds me of Omal Maal a lot for some reason. Love it.
Wow! Such hauntingly beautiful song in a language I never thought Scottish people had originally. Hope they can revive it.
To my Scottish brothers and sisters; health, happiness, and strength. May Scottish Gaelic return as the dominant tongue of our homeland.
Respect Scotland from Iberia
Even the SS respects Scotland
We want nothing of nazis.
My great grandmother died a few days ago. We buried her today. Before we lowered her into the earth, I sang this song to her as a song of hope that this is what she sees now. Home in heaven. I miss you Grandma Muzz. Be at peace
Do you think Scottish Gaelic is similar to Irish Gaelic?
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Yes. Quite similar. Irish Gaels brought the language to Scotland.
Sister Languages
@@aduantas I wish learn your beautiful languages one day
of course.
I love Scotland, it's a very beautiful country. Gaelic is a very beautiful language, it's just a pity that so few people speak it and that it is disappearing.
its not really disappearing, there's still like 60,000 people who speak it and I know a couple who do. Its just not a very popular language
Beautiful
I've been learning Gàidhlig and Gaelge and this is my 6th song that I'm learning to sing, its actually quite easy to learn, takes me about a week or less to learn a new song practicing about 40 minutes or more a day (I learn on my drive home from work, or during work). My mothers side ancestry is from Scotland and maybe some Irish, my family came to to southeastern Ohio so I'm Appalachian. Knowing these old mountains were shared pre pangea makes me feel more connected to my roots. I adore these languages and the land and find it therapeutic to speak in other languages and hope I can become proficient and help people to see its not as difficult as they say.
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1:20
Gràdh do dh'Alba às na h-Innseachan! 🏴🇮🇳
Make Scotland speak Gaelic (and Scots) again and make Ireland speak Irish and Wales speak Welsh and Cornwall speak Cornish and Brittany speak Breton and I hope those people in Nova Scotia can speak their Gaelic too.
Edit: The Isle of Man should speak Manx.
Welsh is accually spoken by a lot of people in Wales around 30% of Welsh people can speak Welsh with 16% of people using it daily and 5% weekly and those numbers will probably increase in the future
@@ermin2248 Very good. Now let the same be with Gaelic and Irish.
@@looksbr22 and Breton
@@ermin2248 That's good but 100% of people don't speak it and that's not good.
No, keep them where they culturally belong. You force this on the south we'll say fuck you, we were part of Northumbria not the tiny pockets of gaidhlig and scots-ified English. Accept that a majority of us shouldn't have the languages of less than 4% of the country forced into our lives and culture when it never was part of our region's history.
I'm a brazilian portuguese descent without relation with the Scotland or Celtic culture, but I am crying listening this song and I don't now the why.
Beautiful culture! Keep your language Scotland, is beautiful. ❤🏴
Best Scottish song since Auld Lang Syne. Long Live Scotland! 🇺🇲♥️🏴
This is rad dude!
Im nordic I just really enjoy hearing Celtic and Gaelic its truely beautiful
I would learn one of their languages if it wasnt for the fact I would have no one to Converse it with
I am from the McPherson Clan and a small percentage of my dna is Nordic.
@@wormy3811 oh yeah sorry its beacuse we colonized and Allied with you lads. Im Heattic (Norwegian-Geatish) and we took great part in the North Sea expansion
My great great grandparents migrated to the UK from Iran in the 1500's all my life I have lived in scotland I speak romani and english my ancestors have lived here for ages alongside their kin traveling in tribes across the highlands. All my life I've been called a gypsy and i've been isolated from the land i call my home even though we've lived here for generations I am Scottish
If you listen carefully, this song has a hidden “fuck you” directed towards the English at 0:26 for what they’ve done.
@An very person Br1it!sh
@@Mark_Jonas Scots are also British
@@ermin2248 no Scotland is their own country!
England hasnt done shit to Scotland. Scots want to be victims so much despite contributing a massive amount to the British Empire. Guess who colonized Ireland, (hint: it wasnt the english)
@@ermin2248 Scots are Brits. Scots are Celts
The fact that most scots these days (my self included) cannae speak our native tounge is truly depressing that we're forced to speak a toung that aint our own
Tbf you aren't forced too, it's just society has moved away from gaidhlig to English. If you are from Edinburgh I don't think gaidhlig reached that far anyway.
@@hugepumpkin8094 It did. That's why there are many Gaelic placenames like Inverleith and Corstorphine. Drive between the airport and the city centre and you'll see quite a few more. On the other side of the Southern Uplands getting quite close to the borders, you'll still find Gaelic-named towns like Innerleithen (Inver+leithen).
Thank you --and for the translation!
In the Netflix show "Outlander", we can hear Gaelic Scot spoken.
Greetings to all my Scottish mates from the heart of Caucasus,Azerbaijan
Embrace your culture,lads,and revive your language as the Israelis did!🏴🇦🇿
What...
@@rizzospastis Hebrew was a dead language until the XX century
Glory to land of the fire!
Glory to Azerbaijan!
The difference is that gàidhlig is still alive and hebrew only was just revived.
@@BATO_BRX thanks,where are you from mate?
This is a general muster call to anyone, Celtic or no, to learn their heritage language. Even if it’s only pleasantries and place-names, learn your heritage language. That goes for Irish, Scots, Welsh, Cornish, Manx, Bretons, Faroese, Native of America, Oceania, and Siberia, Africans, anyone. Don’t let your culture’s language die with you.
well said brother
Beautiful, sounds like a song of Tolkienian Elfs!
The elvish language in those books is heavily based off of Scottish Gaelic and welsh. The elves themselves are pretty heavily based off of Irish, Scottish and welsh tales of the goodfolk (fae).
@@idonotliveinparaguay.2361 Sindarin is based on welsh, and Quenya is more loosely based on Finnish.
Gheibh sinn air ais ar neo-eisimeileachd a dh’ aithghearr. Gu ma fada beò Alba.
Delusional nat spotted
chan e, chan eil sinn ag iarraidh idir
gu dùrachdach, Albannach
Independence!🏴
We were asked, said no. Ask us again, we'll still say no. Nats still haven't won.
we don't want independence
@@JoRdi-ul4xg you don't want independence
In Italian “che mi” means that my, so it looks like “that’s my m o r b i u s”
Shut up
We got it Ingen
-Ceilteach
Love from Greece 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷
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@@maratmanukyan1325 i love Armenia ♥️💜🧡
I recognise this rhythm from "Hush hush" AKA "Sleep bonnie baby", a Scottish lullaby
Based
Fo cheò sounds like f*ck you (in a very calm voice)
Xd🤣
ireland and scotland are such beautiful places
Since the independence dates of Pakistan and India are on the 14th and 15th of Aug, a song about those two would be nice
Salute to the Irish, Scottish, Catholics and episcopallians who supported King Charles Edward Stuart
ur based af
My family is legally related to the mistress Charlie ran off and found in Europe.
@@OnlyGrafting intresting
@@OnlyGrafting I'm related to a Viking Chief
Freedom and Liberty!!
Hi Ingen. We have a patriotic song "Kumar Asanov - Kyrgyzstan", please make
Scotland Childhood love I love the Scottish countryside and Scottish novels Live free, Scotland 🇪🇬🇪🇬❤️🤝🏴🏴
Now you need a manx language song and you'll have the full celtic songlist
Hearing this beautiful singing makes me realize the real tragedy in Scotland, before I thought the fight for Scottish independence was simply due to an anti-English sentiment, now I know not just what they're attacking, but what they are defending as well.
In other words, I realize that Scottish separatists are fighting to protect a beautiful dying language.
Not really, it's because they don't like the current british government and they feel it does not represent them from what I can tell
@@hugepumpkin8094 your wrong Scots hate the English for suppressing our culture and people go read about the Highland clearances if you want to know more about the genocide Scotland has been subjected to under English rule
LONG LIVE SCOTLANDDD
My grandparents were Scottish. I'm proud of my heritage.
Ashamed that I am born and bred Scottish but I don't understand a lick of Gaelic
Stuff like this makes me wish I chose Gaelic instead of French in S1, but here I am a few years later doing nat5 French and not knowing a single word of Gaelic.
I feel the same thing about Irish I only had a year of learning it but per pressure turned me of of it for a year or two, but theres a whole life time to learn it, you shouldn't give up on learning Gaelic
I finished school in 2021 and now starting my 3rd year of university soon and I wish my school taught gaelic because I would really like to learn it but it seems it is now only taught in gaelic schools and in the highlands, very hard for us folks from the central belt to learn our native language let alone use it due to the lack of speakers
@@h0welss Yeah even here in the highlands its optional and very few people choose to do it. In primary school we're taught French, but not Gaelic.
great song love from cape breton nova scotia
Cape Breton, beautiful place.
I'm learning Scottish Gaelic and Irish, because of Gael heritage. I have an Irish friend, and he is also learning Irish alongside me. Sadly no one to speak Scottish Gaelic to though.