What is the Gaelic alphabet?

Answer 1

"Gaelic" one of the two branches of the Celtic language group (Goidelic) which includes the native (non-English) languages of Highland Scotland, Ireland and the Isle of Man. It also refers to the cultures of those lands.

Answer 2

Gaelic, or Goidelic is one of the groups of the Celtic family of languages, comprising Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Manx. Scottish Gaelic and Manx developed through the migrations of Irish speakers in the first millennium AD.

The Irish conquered Scotland starting in the 4th century. They spread northwards and eastwards through Scotland cutting through native Pictish resistance. Following the establishment of the Gaelic church on Iona by Columba in the 6th cent., the Gaels acquired the means of spreading both their authority and their language. In the 9th cent., Gaels and Picts were finally united under a Gaelic king, probably of mixed parentage. In the 11th cent., Malcolm Canmore, son of Duncan, came to the throne with the aid of English forces and began to introduce Anglo-Norman customs and language. His descendants followed this policy and the Gaelic language was gradually replaced by English in state and church administration. Scottish Gaelic is still spoken in some parts of Scotland.

Irish is still the first official language of Ireland and is regarded as the national speech; although since the nineteenth century most Irish people speak English.

Answer 3

A B C D E F G H I L M N O P R S T U

In modern Irish a number of English borrowings occur with

J as in jab (job), jíp (Jeep)

Q as in quinín (quinine)

V as in veain (van), vóta (vote)

X as in X-gha (X-ray)

Y as in Y-chrómosóm (Y+chromosome)

Z as in zú (zoo)

Answer 4

Although a lot of people overseas use "Gaelic" to mean the Celtic language of Ireland, in Ireland it is referred to as "Irish". To the Irish "Gaelic" is Scottish Gaelic.

The three languages (including Manx Gaelic) are part of the Celtic language group which also would include the less closely related Welsh-Breton-Cornish group (Brythonic). Celtic is a branch of Indo-European distinct from the Germanic and Romance language groups.

Answer 5

Someone who speaks, Irish, Scottish Gaelic or Manx Gaelic.

Answer 6

English

Answer 7

Ceilteach