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1 day ago · This list of Scottish Gaelic given names shows Scottish Gaelic given names beside their English language equivalent. In some cases, the equivalent can be a cognate, in other cases it may be an Anglicised spelling derived from the Gaelic name, or in other cases it can be an etymologically unrelated name.
1 day ago · In Scotland, the Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act 2005 gave the Scottish Gaelic language its first statutory basis; and the Western Isles region of Scotland has a policy to promote the language.
5 days ago · Dk.6.192: Proposal by the Highland Society of London to found a chair of, in one one of the Scottish universities, mentioned in a letter of J.H. Allan. 18 May 1846. Coll-1367 / Gen.44: Agallamh Oisin agus Padraig (Irish Gaelic) Gen.45-46: Translation into gaelic of part of the Old testament c.1800. 2 boxes.
18 hours ago · The Outer Hebrides (/ ˈ h ɛ b r ɪ d iː z / HEB-rid-eez) or Western Isles (Scottish Gaelic: na h-Eileanan Siar [nə ˈhelanən ˈʃiəɾ] ⓘ, na h-Eileanan an Iar [nə ˈhelanən əɲ ˈiəɾ] ⓘ or na h-Innse Gall, 'Islands of the Strangers'; Scots: Waster Isles), sometimes known as the Long Isle or Long Island (Scottish Gaelic: an t-Eilean Fada), is an island chain off the west coast of ...
5 days ago · Donald MacKinnon (1839–1914) was the first holder of the Edinburgh’s Chair of Celtic, the first chair of its kind in Scotland. Best known for his translation and annotation of the 15th-century Glenmasan Manuscript, MacKinnon did much to define the academic study of Scottish Gaelic language, literature, culture and history.
2 days ago · In the examples above the Goidelic languages (Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Manx) use the preposition meaning at to show possession, whereas the Brittonic languages use with. The Goidelic languages, however, do use the preposition with to express "belong to" (Irish is liom an leabhar , Scottish is leam an leabhar , Manx s'lhiams yn lioar , The ...
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18 hours ago · Gaulish is an extinct Celtic language spoken in parts of Continental Europe before and during the period of the Roman Empire. In the narrow sense, Gaulish was the language of the Celts of Gaul (now France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, Northern Italy, as well as the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine ).
