A Celtic language spoken in Scotland. Galic is also spoken in Nova Scotia.
A form of Gaelic was brought to Scotland by Irish invaders in about the 5th century, where it replaced an older Brythonic Celtic language. By the 15th century, with the addition of Norse and English borrowings, the Scottish branch differed significantly enough from the Irish to warrant definition as a separate language.
The alphabets of Irish Gaelic and Galic is identical. Like Gaelic , a stress is placed on the initial syllable of words.
Scottish Galic exists in two main dialects (Northern and Southern). The Southern dialect is more closer to Irish Gaelic than the Northern is, and is more inflected . The main difference bewteen the two dialects is the change of the é sound, which is eu in the Northern dialect and ia in the Southern one.
| Name | Where spoken | Language Family | How many (000s) |
| Scottish Gaelic | Scotland (esp W. Isles) | Indo-European (Celtic) | 75-80 |
Table source: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, David Ctystal, Cambridge University Press
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