Scottish language information

Lowland Scotland and Ulster, native to southeast Scotland Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig), a Celtic language native to the Scottish Highlands Scottish English...

Scots and Scottish Gaelic are minority languages. The dialect of English spoken in Scotland is referred to as Scottish English. The Celtic languages of Scotland...

Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a Goidelic language, Scottish Gaelic, as well as both Irish and...

Scottish English (Scottish Gaelic: Beurla Albannach) is the set of varieties of the English language spoken in Scotland. The transregional, standardised...

language of Scotland by the Scottish government, a regional or minority language of Europe, and a vulnerable language by UNESCO. In the 2011 Scottish...

Gaelic, is a collective term for the dialects of Scottish Gaelic spoken in Atlantic Canada. Scottish Gaels were settled in Nova Scotia from 1773, with...

The Goidelic (/ɡɔɪˈdɛlɪk/ goy-DEL-ik) or Gaelic languages (Irish: teangacha Gaelacha; Scottish Gaelic: cànanan Goidhealach; Manx: çhengaghyn Gaelgagh)...

The Scottish people or Scots (Scots: Scots fowk; Scottish Gaelic: Albannaich) are an ethnic group and nation native to Scotland. Historically, they emerged...

to the continuation of Scottish culture and national identity. Scottish English and Scots are the most widely spoken languages in the country, existing...

distinct Scottish institution continue to exist. Scottish Gaelic, also known as the founding language of Scotland is currently the oldest Scottish language still...

throughout Scotland, with people of all ages and abilities. Dictionary of the Scots Language Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue Scottish National Dictionary...

and the Celtic languages, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and, as a revived language with few speakers, Cornish. British Sign Language is also used. There...

while Scottish Gaelic was the court language until displaced by Norman French in the early 12th century. English then spread further into Scotland via the...

Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland Scottish English Scottish national identity, the Scottish identity and common...

The history of the Irish language begins with the period from the arrival of speakers of Celtic languages in Ireland to Ireland's earliest known form of...

spoken throughout Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man. The island came under Scottish rule in 1266, and alternated between Scottish and English rule until...

Scottish Travellers (Scottish Gaelic: Luchd-siubhail Albannach), or the people in Scotland loosely termed Romani persons or travellers, consist of a number...

uncertain whether Scottish Cant is the result of Scottish Lowland Romani Travellers transitioning from speaking Romani to speaking a mixed language (like what...

are six living languages: the four continuously living languages Breton, Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh, and the two revived languages Cornish and Manx...

the Late Middle Ages into the modern period, when Lowland Scots language replaced Scottish Gaelic throughout most of the Lowlands. The term is also used...

Pictish is an extinct Brittonic Celtic language spoken by the Picts, the people of eastern and northern Scotland from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle...

Scottish Secondary Classrooms". Association for Scottish Literary Studies. 36 – via Gale Literature Resource Center. "Language learning in Scotland:...

and in Caithness in the far north of the Scottish mainland. After Orkney and Shetland were pledged to Scotland by Norway in 1468–69, it was gradually replaced...

Scottish Enlightenment (Scots: Scots Enlichtenment, Scottish Gaelic: Soillseachadh na h-Alba) was the period in 18th- and early-19th-century Scotland...

The Scottish Parliament (Scottish Gaelic: Pàrlamaid na h-Alba [ˈpʰaːrˠl̪ˠəmɪtʲ nə ˈhal̪ˠapə]; Scots: Scots Pairlament) is the devolved, unicameral legislature...

Scottish Gaelic literature refers to literary works composed in the Scottish Gaelic language, which is, like Irish and Manx, a member of the Goidelic branch...

the UK. BBC Scotland operates television channels such as the Scottish variant of BBC One, the BBC Scotland channel and the Gaelic-language channel BBC...

for the ingenious, Volume I.. See also "Dictionary of the Scottish language". Scottish Language Dictionaries. Archived from the original on 24 April 2014...

This list of Scottish Gaelic surnames shows Scottish Gaelic surnames beside their English language equivalent. Unlike English surnames (but in the same...