The Lord's Prayer in Scottish Gaelic (Catholic version) - Ùrnaigh an Tighearna
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- Опубликовано: 18 фев 2016
- This is one of several videos from the Gaelic Revitalization blog featuring fluent Scottish Gaelic speakers reciting the Lord's Prayer (the Our Father) in Gaelic. This video features our friend Joe Murphy in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
For more on the Lord's Prayer in Gaelic, please visit the Gaelic Revitalization blog at gaelic.co.
For videos of other Gaelic speakers reciting the prayer, see the complete playlist.
Here are the words as recited in the video:
Ar n-Athair, a tha air nèamh,
gu’m bu naomh a bhios t’ainm;
gu’n tigeadh do rìoghachd,
gu’n dèanar do thoil
air an talamh mar a tha air nèamh.
Thoir dhuinn an diugh ar n-aran lathail;
math dhuinn ar fiachan,
mar a mhathas sinne do luchd-ar fiach.
Is na leig ann am buaireadh sinn.
Ach saor sinn o’n olc.
Amen.
Here is the Catholic version of the Lord's Prayer from Iùl a’ Chriosdaidh (the Scottish Gaelic Catholic prayer book first published in 1963):
Ar n-Athair, a tha air nèamh,
gu’m bu naomh a bhios t’ainm;
gu’n tigeadh do rìoghachd,
gu’n dèanar do thoil
air talamh mar a thathas a’ dèanamh air nèamh.
Thor dhuinn an diugh ar n-aran lathail;
math dhuinn ar fiachan,
mar a mhathas sinne do luchd-ar fiach.
Agus na leig ann am buaireadh sinn.
Ach saor sinn bho’n olc.
Amen.
The English version:
Our Father, Who art in Heaven,
hallowed be Thy name;
Thy Kingdom come,
Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive those who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
Amen.
I am an American of Scottish ancestry, a Catholic, and a beginning Gàidhlig learner. Scotland has a rich Catholic history that many people may not know about. For example, The Arbroath Declaration, considered Scotland's declaration of independence, is in fact a letter from a delegation of Scottish noblemen to the Pope protesting English violations of Scottish sovereignty. The signatories appeal to the Pope for a judgement against the English and point out that the Scots have historically been loyal sons of the Catholic Church. There are Catholic connections among my family, the Leslies in Scotland, as well. A Leslie signed the Arbroath Declaration and another Leslie was later rector of the Pontifical Scots College in Rome. I'm very pleased to see this Catholic version of the Lord's Prayer in Scottish Gaelic. Moran tàing!
Very awesome. God bless
Very beautiful!
Amen. Thank you! 🥹
Wonderful
Amen!
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I only first heard the Lords Prayer in Gaidhlig 2 weeks ago although i spoke it before i had any English. That was at a funeral live streamed from Canada believe it or not
Scotland 🏴 and our wonderful Scottish Gaelic language. Glory be to Jesus our God
It's so similar to how it's spoken in Irish.
Peace 💙and ❤️Blessings❤️ Too ✌️My💚 Brother 💙May💜 God 💛Bless 💙You 💜Always❤️ May💛 God 💙Bless 💜You❤️ Richly💯 with💛 Everything💚 You💜 need 💛Always 💙Much💜 Love❤️ Blessings💜 Always ☺️ 🎇 🌈 🌐 ✌️💯❤️💜💙💙💙💜❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Oh my word. Tha thu cho math!!!!!👀😊
Would love to hear Psalm 91 in Scottish 🏴 Gaelic and the same for Psalm 23 those two Psalms are very close to my heart
MIGHT GOD BLES YOU
Could you do the Hail Mary next? Tapadh leibh!
I'll see what I can do as far as finding someone to recite it on camera. I have some very old recordings of it on cassette tapes, but it was outdoors. We used half of it in the Gaelic nativity play here, starting at about 1:27 (although the sound is not great): ruclips.net/video/RZYvSkJ42fE/видео.html Another source is the An Drochaid Eadarainn site, although the sound quality is poor here too (Fàilte dhut a Mhoire starts at 0:54 under "Ùrnaighean"): www.androchaid.ca/node/74
@@dremilymcewan PRAYER FOR
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Who else had to slow it down to .75 to learn
That's totally fine! The slower-downer is a great learning tool! For native English speakers, Gaelic pronunciation is so different that it can feel like you're training for the mouth Olympics. But keep at it and you will eventually get there!
The similarities between Irish and Scottish Gaelic are similar.
Where could I find a reliable Gaelic IPA chart?
+Stephanie Fisher Great question! This book by Michael Bauer, Blas na Gàidhlig: The Practical Guide to Gaelic Pronunciation, should give you everything you need to know! www.akerbeltz.eu/books.html
The pronunciation guide pages on akerbeltz.org have been invaluable to me in learning Gaelic orthography, and everything is transcribed in IPA.
May❤️ God💙 Be💛 With💛 You💚 Always💜 Much💙 Love 🔥Blessings💙 Always ☺️ 🎇 🌈 🌐 ✌️💯💛💙💙❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💛💛
I am very curious as to why the usual ending wasn't applied: "for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen '
"oir is leatsa an rioghachd, agus an cumhachd, agus a' ghloir gu siorruidh."
Because this is the Catholic version. Here is the text in English: www.usccb.org/prayers/our-father
See our other videos for the Protestant version!
Some of it is very close to Irish Gaelic.
Sounds like he also eclipses after the possessive pronoun like in Irish - eg. Ar bhfiachan. I know eclipsis remains in Scottish Gaelic (unwritten) but I haven't heard an F eclipsed to Bh before. Are there areas that still do this in Scotland?
Good question, sorry I missed replying! I should ask Joe to address that! There are a few possible answers as to why he did that: 1) He is also an Irish speaker so that might have slipped in; 2) He speaks the dialect of his wife's people from Broad Cove (he learned from her parents) and I'm not sure if that is done there -- there was Irish influence on Cape Breton Gaelic music, so who knows; 3) As far as I know it's not done in Scotland. :-)
In a different comment down below, Joe described his dialect & accent this way: ""I learned Gaelic as an adult and so the way I speak it derives from the Gaels who helped me learn. They were all Cape Bretoners - native speakers descended from Mull (MacLean / River Denys Mountain), Barra (MacKenzie / Rear Christmas Island) and Morar (Gillis / Broad Cove - Brook Section) people. Once I could make conversation, most of the people who spoke Gaelic with me were of Inverness County in Cape Breton. So, their way of speaking, the very broad 'L' sound, the double "nn" pronounced as an "m" and a bit of their 'blas' (accent) now sound natural to me and I hope that's what comes out."
Did he pronounce lathail as /wa:jal/? Just a learner here but that tripped me up
Yes, it's a feature of one of the dialects spoken in Cape Breton! I wrote a little bit about it in another blog post: gaelic.co/top-10-gaelic-diffs-part-2/
For a more "plain vanilla" Scottish Gaelic pronunciation you can see my video: ruclips.net/video/zZWLpVQQQUo/видео.html
is there any online classes for Scottish Gaelic available that you know of? Just can't find anything in the States.
+TheCosmicburrito2 Yes! The An Comunn Gàidhealach Ameireaganach website has listings of online classes as well as local ones: www.acgamerica.org/learn/classes/
ruclips.net/video/CUSGeUYpRiw/видео.html
Legit!!
Update 3 years after you first asked, but the free Duolingo app now offers Scottish Gaelic as well!
The Gaelic College in Nova Scotia (Atlantic Gaelic Academy) offers live online lessons for beginners through advanced speakers.
i see often no correlation between english letters and sounds often are flat monotone and difficult to discern in english letters used is there a reason for this as i wish to correctly pronounce it and if possible have a slight scottish accent
Hi there, thanks for your comment. I'll try to answer your questions. Feel free to reply below if you need something different! First off, the letters in the subtitles above are not English letters, they're standard Scottish Gaelic spelling. Scottish Gaelic and English both use the Latin or Roman alphabet -- but as you can see, they use it in very different ways! The letters stand for a different set of sounds in Gaelic than they do in English. Gaelic also only uses 18 of those letters, not 26, and the accent marks generally mark long vowels in Gaelic. Learning to read and write in Scottish Gaelic is a challenge for English speakers, because we're so used to only seeing and using the Latin alphabet in an English way. But that Latin alphabet can be used in a Gaelic way too (or in a French way, or a German way, or even a Japanese way... etc.).
If you copy the pronunciation exactly as you hear it in any of my Lord's Prayer example videos, then you will have a Scottish *Gaelic* accent. Scottish Gaelic accents are different from Scottish accents. This is because Scottish Gaelic and Scots are two different languages, each with their unique own pronunciation and sound system.
If you want to hear someone reciting the prayer with a different Scottish Gaelic dialect/accent than Joe here, I do have another video of the Lord's Prayer with a different speaker (me), reciting it slowly line by line. You can find the link on my blog post that ties in with this video; it's the 3rd video example down at: gaelic.co/lords-prayer2/. If you subscribe to my email list, you can get my free PDF download "cheat sheet" of the Lord's Prayer with English phonetic pronunciation (see the pop-up subscribe window on the blog at www.gaelic.co, and a link in the footer of every page as well). The English phonetics on the cheat sheet are far from perfect, but it can be a helpful bridge to learning the real Gaelic pronunciation.
Finally, to help you hear the Gaelic videos better, if you're watching on a desktop computer, you can use RUclips's "slower downer" feature: click the gear icon in the lower right-hand corner of the video screen, then click "Speed", and select 0.25, 0.5, or 0.75x normal speed. RUclips will keep the pitch the same! (Sorry, this feature doesn't work on mobile.)
This needs to be done a lot slower so that people have time to read the words.
Good news, we have a couple of options for that already. Please see my blog post that ties in with this video: gaelic.co/lords-prayer2/ The 3rd video example on the blog post is me reciting it much more slowly, line by line. And if you subscribe to the Gaelic.co blog email list, there's a free PDF download of the Lord's Prayer with English phonetic pronunciation too. Another option, if you're watching this on a desktop, is to click the gear icon in the lower right-hand corner, then click "Speed", then you can select 0.25, 0.5, or 0.75x normal speed (RUclips will keep the pitch the same!). It's a great feature.
(Forgot to add, the RUclips slower-downer feature does not seem to work on mobile, only on desktop, but maybe that will change in the future.)
What accent is this? Sounds very Irish.
Thanks for your question! Joe (the person in the video) described his accent this way: "I learned Gaelic as an adult and so the way I speak it derives from the Gaels who helped me learn. They were all Cape Bretoners - native speakers descended from Mull (MacLean / River Denys Mountain), Barra (MacKenzie / Rear Christmas Island) and Morar (Gillis / Broad Cove - Brook Section) people. Once I could make conversation, most of the people who spoke Gaelic with me were of Inverness County in Cape Breton. So, their way of speaking, the very broad 'L' sound, the double "nn" pronounced as an "m" and a bit of their 'blas' (accent) now sound natural to me and I hope that's what comes out."
We sure this is not Irish Gaelic?
Absolutely, we (Joe, and myself the video-maker and RUclips channel owner) are sure this is Scottish Gaelic. Joe is a fluent speaker and he taught Scottish Gaelic at Saint Mary's University for over 10 years. Joe has described his dialect & accent this way: ""I learned Gaelic as an adult and so the way I speak it derives from the Gaels who helped me learn. They were all Cape Bretoners - native speakers descended from Mull (MacLean / River Denys Mountain), Barra (MacKenzie / Rear Christmas Island) and Morar (Gillis / Broad Cove - Brook Section) people. Once I could make conversation, most of the people who spoke Gaelic with me were of Inverness County in Cape Breton. So, their way of speaking, the very broad 'L' sound, the double "nn" pronounced as an "m" and a bit of their 'blas' (accent) now sound natural to me and I hope that's what comes out."
There are different dialects/accents in Scottish Gaelic. I invite you to check out other videos on my channel to hear other ways of speaking it (including other Lord's Prayer videos).
B ’urrainn dhomh fhathast a bhith a’ faireachdainn gu robh deòir aca a ’tuiteam bho mo shùilean nuair a chunnaic mi a h-uile dad a bha a’ dol air aghaidh + leabhar, bha mi cho fuar gun robh mi air chall de bheachdan agus nach robh fios agam dè a nì mi mun t-suidheachadh agam, An uairsin dìreach mar aingeal mo Thàinig mi tarsainn air an ainm dotair Dashira, dh’ innis mi dha mar a dh’ fhàg mo chompanach mi fhìn agus 3 clann às deidh 24 bliadhna de phòsadh, thug e dòchas dhomh agus thug e cinnteach dhomh mo chompanach a thoirt air ais thugam agus rinn e, agus mar gum biodh e dhomh. Tha an com-pàirtiche air tilleadh agus tha sinn a’ comharrachadh na Nollaige seo còmhla ris an teaghlach gu lèir
Just a little fast for me. Hard to follow.
I have another Lord's Prayer video on my RUclips channel that is much slower: ruclips.net/video/zZWLpVQQQUo/видео.html. I also made a free PDF "cheat sheet" that you can use to follow along! (Subscribe to my blog email list at gaelic.co to get the PDF.)
I also forgot to mention that in RUclips on a computer (not a phone), you can slow down the video without affecting the pitch: click the "settings" gear in the lower-right corner of the video, click "Playback speed", and select your desired speed!
WHO DHOES FORGIVEMES IM
SCOTLAMDH
FUL OF PO
BUT FIGHT THE EMERMY WITH PRAYER TO BE SAVEDH
LIER
BUT JESUS GIVE MERCY
FOR PEOPLE WHO OMLY CARE ABOUT THEMSELVES