| Classical Gaelic | ||
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| Spoken in | Scotland | |
| Language extinction | 18th century (replaced by Modern Gaelic) | |
| Language family | Indo-European
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| Writing system | Latin | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | ||
| ISO 639-3 | ghc | |
Classical Gaelic was the literary form of Scottish Gaelic used in Scotland from the 13th to the 18th century. Ethnologue gives the name "Hiberno-Scottish Gaelic" (and the ISO 639-3 code ghc) as a cover term for Classical Gaelic and Early Modern Irish.
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