Goidelic leids

Celtic subfaimly o Ireland, Scotland & Mann
(Reguidit frae Goidelic leid)

The Gaelic or Goidelic leids is a group o three sib leids - the Scots Gaelic (Gàidhlig), the Manx Gaelic leid (Gaelg), an the Erse leid (Gaeilge). Thae leids grew frae the the leid kent nou as Auld Erse an thegither wi the Brythonic leids mak up the Celtic leids.[2]

Goidelic
Gaelic
Geografic
distribution
Lingueestic clessificationIndo-European
Early form
Subdiveesions
Glottologgoid1240[1]

Scotland thare's aboot 61,000 fowk that speaks Scots Gaelic aside the 1.5 million that speaks Scots an the mony fowk that speaks Inglis. Aboot 1700 fowk speaks Manx Gaelic. O the Gaelic leids juist Erse hae been made a wirkin leid o the European Union (EU).

References eedit

  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Goidelic". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (David Crystal, editor); Cambridge University Press, 1987; p. 302