I've just read on another website that it is spoken in Canada, Australia and the US, It that true??
2006-09-07 23:29:26 · 9 answers · asked by ♡♡Gneaseach♡♡ 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
I don't think so. It may be taught in certain schools and universities but I doubt it's in everyday use by anyone outside the west of Ireland.
(I'm referring to the Irish dialect of Gaelic, other dialects bare little resemblance)
2006-09-07 23:34:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Please let me correct the other answers! Gaelic is very much a spoken language! Click on the links to listen to Radio Scotland's Gaelic service and RTE's Irish service.
Irish (Gaeilge - pronounced 'gaylick') is spoken in Ireland
Scots Gaelic (GÃ idhlig - pronounced 'gallick') is spoken in Scotland (predominantly in the Highlands but also elsewhere)
It is perfectly conceivable that Irish and Scottish ex-pats occasionally speak their mother tongue in whatever country they live. It's spoken in Australia for example.
Other Celtic languages include Manx (spoken on the Isle of Man), Cornish (almost extinct, but native to Cornwall) and Breton (spoken in Brittany).
NB Gaelic is not spoken in Wales! When they're not speaking English Welsh people speak Welsh.
2006-09-08 07:21:08 · answer #2 · answered by bonshui 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
A few people in Nova Scotia, Canada still speak it, apparently. Scottish Gaelic, not Irish.
2006-09-08 07:03:34 · answer #3 · answered by Goddess of Grammar 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Ireland, some speaks Irish, not Gaelic.
In some islands of Scotland some people speaks
Gaelic. Every year in island of Sky there is a Gaelic
festival.
2006-09-08 06:36:27 · answer #4 · answered by nomad 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's quite possible that it is spoken in parts of Canada as there has been a lot of immigration from Ireland and Scottland to that area.
2006-09-08 06:39:11 · answer #5 · answered by elementx 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yah, and in Wales and Scotland and parts of Normandy, as well. The local dialects can be almost unintelligible (given the centuries of isolation following the Norman conquest), but it is still Gaelic.
2006-09-08 06:35:02 · answer #6 · answered by Grendle 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
gaelic is celtic language, its spoken here in Ureland, aswell as in wales and in scotland but we each have our own version, yet they ear all gaelic. like regional dialects..
2006-09-08 06:33:09 · answer #7 · answered by SUFI 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Gaelic isnt a spoken language
2006-09-08 06:36:05 · answer #8 · answered by isis 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
There are some Islands off of Scotland, Orkney where some dialects of that language are still used.
2006-09-08 06:34:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋