Scottish Gaelic

Also found in: Thesaurus, Acronyms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

Scottish Gael·ic

(găl′ĭk, gā′lĭk)

The Goidelic language of Scotland. Also called Scots Gaelic.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Scottish Gaelic

(Languages) the Goidelic language of the Celts of Scotland, spoken in the Highlands and Western Isles

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

Scot′tish Gael′ic

or Scots Gaelic

a Celtic language, closely related to Irish, spoken in the Hebrides and the Highlands of Scotland.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Switch to new thesaurus

Noun

Scottish Gaelic - the Gaelic of Scotland

Scots Gaelic

Erse, Gaelic, Goidelic - any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland

Translations

Skots-Gaelies

skotská gaelština

Schottisch-Gälisch

γαελικά (σκωτικά)

gaeli

gaélique écossais

Schots-Gaelisch

gaélico escocês

skotsk gäliska

Mentioned in ?

References in periodicals archive ?

Scottish Gaelic, Irish, Jamaican Patois, Limonese Creole, Romani, Vlax, Danubian, Sureth, Suryaya Swadaya A type of Romani Cornish, Bororo Spoken in lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster Other types of Greek language A Norman language EXTINCT Alderney French, Manx, Norn, Old Kentish sign language, Polari Scottish Gaelic Scots Scots Irish Manx Manx It was spoken the Isle of Man but is today extinct Welsh Cornish Guernsey French Jersey French Calabrian Greek, Ellinika , Graecae, Romaic, Neo-Hellenic, Guernsey French, Jersey French, Jerriais, Sark French

LANGUAGES AT RISK

Bord na Gaidhlig chief executive Shona MacLennan said: "We were delighted with the variety, number and quality of the nominations, which show the Scottish Gaelic awards continue to grow each year.

We grow each year; BORD NA GAIDHLIG SCOTTISH GAELIC AWARDS List of outstanding finalists shows the traditional language is experiencing a welcome resurgence

He also edited Scottish Gaelic Studies, the scholarly journal published by Aberdeen University, from 1961 to 1976, and contributed articles and reviews to it.

Derick Thomson: Poet and Scholar

(2) See the five-part article by Kerry Cardell and Cliff Cummin, 'Gaelic Voices from Australia', Scottish Gaelic Studies, 19 (1999) through to Scottish Gaelic Studies, 30 (2016); Ruth Lee Martin, 'Paradise Imagined: Songs of Scots Gaelic migrants in Australia, 1850-1940', Humanities Research 19:3 (2013), pp.

Kangaroos and Cockatoos: Gaelic Literature in the Nineteenth-Century Antipodes

The Lay Association of the Free Church of Scotland founded Dunedin at the head of Otago Harbour in 1848 as the principal town of its church settlement, with the name coming from Dun Eideann, the Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland's capital city.

Curious George? The little Prince may not be accompanying the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to Dunedin on their tour of New Zealand, but JONATHAN SYMCOX'S guide will tell him everything he needs to know about this fascinating town

Newton attempts a macro-scale analysis of Scottish Gaelic literary output in the Americas, but the widely dispersed and heterogeneous nature of the Gaels undermines a holistic narrative.

Michael Newton, ed. Celts in the Americas

Uneasy subjects; postcolonialism and Scottish Gaelic poetry.

Uneasy subjects; postcolonialism and Scottish Gaelic poetry

58 people speak Scottish Gaelic, 33 speak Manx Gaelic and 629 speak Romany.

Punjabi is Britain's third most spoken language: Census

The new languages announced are English UK, Punjabi (Pakistan), Sindhi (Pakistan), Central Kurdish (Iraq), Uyghur (People's Republic of China), Belarusian (Belarus), Kinyarwanda (Rwanda), Tigrinya (Ethiopia), Tajik (Tajikistan), Wolof (Senegal), K'iche' (Guatemala), Scottish Gaelic (United Kingdom), Cherokee (United States) and Valencian (Spain).

MS Windows 8 released in 109 Languages

(http://www.dw.de/scots-officially-set-for-vote-on-sovereignty/a-16307407) According to German newscaster Deutsche Welle , polls have long showed only 30 to 40 percent of Scots agree with the idea of creating a separate Scottish Gaelic state.

Independence Bid To Renew Fight Over 'Scotland's Oil'

* Scotland has three officially recognized languages: English, Scots, and Scottish Gaelic.

The not-so-United Kingdom

The Scottish Education Minister is rolling out a policy of making Scottish Gaelic education available to children and other learners throughout the country.