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Canadian Gaelic or Cape Breton Gaelic (Scottish Gaelic: Gàidhlig Chanada, A' Ghàidhlig Chanadach or Gàidhlig Cheap Bhreatainn), often known in Canadian English simply as Gaelic, is a collective term for the dialects of Scottish Gaelic spoken in Atlantic Canada.
Canadian Gaelic was spoken as the first language in much of "Anglophone" Canada, such as Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Glengarry County in Ontario. Gaelic was the third most commonly spoken language in Canada.
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Canadian Gaelic or Cape Breton Gaelic, often known in Canadian English simply as Gaelic, is a collective term for the dialects of Scottish Gaelic spoken in Atlantic Canada.
Outside of Scotland, a dialect known as Canadian Gaelic has been spoken in Canada since the 18th century. In the 2021 census, 2,170 Canadian residents claimed knowledge of Scottish Gaelic, a decline from 3,980 speakers in the 2016 census.
Gaels in Canada. As a result of voluntary immigration and forced evictions from the Highlands and Islands of Scotland commencing in the 1770s and lasting until into the mid-1800s an estimated 600,000 Gaels were displaced from their ancestral lands. By the late 19th century, it was estimated by churchmen that 250,000 people spoke Gaelic in ...
Many of the first books published in Gaelic in Canada produced in Pictou, such as the Gaelic hymnal Laoidhean Spioradail in 1832 and Companach an Òganaich in 1836. Amongst those settled in eastern mainland Nova Scotia and Cape Breton were accomplished Gaelic scholars, poets, clergymen, and musicians.
At the time of Canadian Confederation, in 1867, Gaelic was the third most spoken language in Canada. As many as one hundred thousand Nova Scotians spoke Gaelic as their mother tongue in 1900. Today, estimates claim there are between 1000 and 2000 Gaelic speakers and learners in the province.
