Man this makes me sad 😢 I should have grew up speaking English and Gaelic
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Where’s Pictish?
What effect did the Norse languages have on modern Scottish? Is the current Scottish pronunciation affected at all by it or mainly Gaelic?
isn’t this rather cherry-picking in terms of time? Yes, 1000CE was Peak Gaelic, but go back 150 years further and only the Northumbrian elite are speaking Old English in the SE and preparing to get kicked most of the way back to the Tweed by the Picts, with Cumbric much more solid in the south, except maybe for Galloway, and what had been the Pictish kingdoms are still transitioning from Pictish languages to Scots Gaelic. Go back anything more than another 150 before that and Brythonic languages dominate, Gaelic’s only in Galloway and the roots of Dalriata.
Not your fault, I admit, that people tend to think “before English, it was Gaelic since the dawn of time”, when for much of the country it was really “before English, it was Gaelic, for maybe a couple of centuries, and before that it was Pictish and Cumbric and other p-Celtic languages, except maybe for the NW, all the way back to Old Brythonic.
Of course, before that it was some sort of proto-Indo-European for a couple of millennia, and before that who-knows-what for another ten, and before that it was just cold and quiet. Gaelic’s really just the last-but-one invasive language 🙂
Cumbric 🏴🏴🏴
That was so long ago that nobody alive now had descendants back then.
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They never spoke Gaelic in Fife, as I understand
I make stuff up and post it on the internet too.
Man this makes me sad 😢 I should have grew up speaking English and Gaelic
Popcorn oot🍿
Where’s Pictish?
What effect did the Norse languages have on modern Scottish? Is the current Scottish pronunciation affected at all by it or mainly Gaelic?
isn’t this rather cherry-picking in terms of time? Yes, 1000CE was Peak Gaelic, but go back 150 years further and only the Northumbrian elite are speaking Old English in the SE and preparing to get kicked most of the way back to the Tweed by the Picts, with Cumbric much more solid in the south, except maybe for Galloway, and what had been the Pictish kingdoms are still transitioning from Pictish languages to Scots Gaelic. Go back anything more than another 150 before that and Brythonic languages dominate, Gaelic’s only in Galloway and the roots of Dalriata.
Not your fault, I admit, that people tend to think “before English, it was Gaelic since the dawn of time”, when for much of the country it was really “before English, it was Gaelic, for maybe a couple of centuries, and before that it was Pictish and Cumbric and other p-Celtic languages, except maybe for the NW, all the way back to Old Brythonic.
Of course, before that it was some sort of proto-Indo-European for a couple of millennia, and before that who-knows-what for another ten, and before that it was just cold and quiet. Gaelic’s really just the last-but-one invasive language 🙂
Cumbric 🏴🏴🏴
That was so long ago that nobody alive now had descendants back then.