Scottish Gaelic

Scottish Gaelic

1. The Gaelic language of Scotland, spoken primarily in the northern and western parts of the country, with important communities in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Scottish Gaelic had its widest influence between 800 and 1200 C.E., as place names throughout Scotland attest.

• Gaelic (in a strict sense)
• Scots Gaelic

• Erse
• Gaelic (broad sense)

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Scottish Gaelic terms
• Appendix:Scottish Gaelic Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Scottish Gaelic

• Highland Gaelic

• ISO 639-1 code gd, ISO 639-3 code gla (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Scottish Gaelic, gla ⁠