Scottish Gaelic

English

Noun

Scottish Gaelic (uncountable)

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 C.E., as place names throughout Scotland attest.

Synonyms

• Gaelic (in a strict sense)
• Scots Gaelic

Hypernyms

• Erse
• Gaelic (broad sense)

Translations

The Gaelic language of Scotland

• Afrikaans: Skots-Gaelies (af)
• Arabic: اَلْأُسْكُتْلَنْدِيَّة f (al-ʔuskutlandiyya)
• Armenian: շոտլանդերեն (hy) (šotlanderen)
• Basque: eskoziako gaelera (eu)
• Belarusian: шатла́ндская мо́ва f (šatlándskaja móva), шатла́ндская f (šatlándskaja)
• Catalan: gaèlic escocès (ca) m, escocès (ca) m

  Valencian: gaèlic escocés m, escocés (ca) m

• Chinese:

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

• Czech: skotská gaelština (cs) f
• Dutch: Schots-Gaelisch (nl) n
• Faroese: skotskt gæliskt n
• Finnish: gaeli (fi)
• French: gaélique écossais (fr) m
• Galician: gaélico escocés (gl) m
• Georgian: შოტლანდიურ-გელური ენა (šoṭlandiur-geluri ena), შოტლანდიურ-გელური (šoṭlandiur-geluri), შოტლანდიური ენა (šoṭlandiuri ena)
• German: Erse n, Ersisch n, Hochschottisch n, Schottisch-Gälisch (de) n
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• Hungarian: skót gael
• Icelandic: skosk-gelíska (is) f
• Irish: Gaeilge na hAlban
• Japanese: スコットランド・ゲール語 (ja) (Sukottorando-Gēru-go)
• Norwegian: skotsk-gælisk
• Occitan: escocés (oc)
• Polish: język szkocki gaelicki
• Portuguese: gaélico escocês (pt) m
• Romanian: limba scoțiană f
• Russian: шотла́ндский язы́к m (šotlándskij jazýk), шотла́ндский (ru) m (šotlándskij), гэ́льский (ru) m (gɛ́lʹskij) (язы́к)
• Scots: Scots Gaelic
• Scottish Gaelic: Gàidhlig f
• Spanish: gaélico escocés (es) m
• Swedish: skotsk gäliska (sv) c
• Tigrinya: እስኮትስ ጌልክኛ (ʾəskots gelkəña)
• Turkish: İskoçça (tr)
• Walloon: gayelike escôswès (wa) m
• 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

• Highland Gaelic

Further reading

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