Scottish Gaelic

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Proper noun

Scottish Gaelic

1. The Gaelic language of Scotland, spoken primarily in the northern and western parts of the country, with important communities in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Scottish Gaelic had its widest influence between 800 and 1200 CE, as place names throughout Scotland attest.

Synonyms

• Gaelic
• Scots Gaelic

Translations

The Gaelic language of Scotland

• Afrikaans: Skots-Gaelies (af)
• Arabic: الأسْكُتْلَنْدِيّة (ar) (al-ʾuskutlandíyya) f
• Armenian: շոտլանդերեն (hy) (šotlanderen)
• Basque: eskoziako gaelera (eu)
• Catalan: gaèlic escocès (ca) m, escocès (ca) m

  Valencian: gaèlic escocés (ca) m, escocés (ca) m

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蘇格蘭蓋爾語 (cmn), 苏格兰盖尔语 (cmn) (Sūgélán-Gài'ěryǔ)

• Czech: skotská gaelština (cs) f
• Dutch: Schots-Gaelisch (nl) n
• Finnish: gaeli (fi)
• French: gaélique écossais (fr) m
• German: Schottisch-Gälisch (de) n
• Irish: Gaeilge na hAlban (ga)

• Japanese: スコットランド・ゲール語 (ja) (Sukottorando-Gēru-go)
• Low German: schottsch gäälsch
• Norwegian: skotsk-gælisk (no)
• Occitan: escocés
• Polish: język szkocki gaelicki
• Portuguese: língua gaélica escocesa f, gaélico escocês (pt) m
• Romanian: limba scoțiană f
• Russian: шотландский язык (ru) (šotlándskij jazýk) m, шотландский (ru) (šotlándskij) m, гэльский (ru) (gélʹskij) m (язы́к)
• Scottish Gaelic: Gàidhlig (gd) f
• Spanish: gaélico escocés (es) m
• Swedish: skotsk gäliska (sv) c
• Turkish: İskoçça (tr)
• Welsh: Gaeleg yr Alban (cy)

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Scottish Gaelic terms
• Appendix:Scottish Gaelic Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Scottish Gaelic

External links

• ISO 639-1 code gd, ISO 639-3 code gla
• Ethnologue entry for Scottish Gaelic, gd