what other languages do Scottish and Irish people speak other than English?

Question

And are Both Scottish and Irish somehow English people besides being united with England?

Answer 1

Hullo,
Scotland:
In the West the Scots increasingly do not speak one of the celtic languages called Gaidhlig. With minimal success it is being revived- Sabhal Mor Ostaig, etc.
Scots is generally considered a separate language from English.
Doric is found to the north of Aberdeen, and can be considered a different language as well.
Ireland:
Gaelic (can't speak this one myself; don't know the correct spelling) is required for young students, but most drop it after that.

Both Gaelic and Gaidhlig (pronounced Gaah-lik) were the same language until about 500 years ago, so some of the older words are more or less equal. Look at Kenneth Jackson's interpretation of the divergence of the two languages for more information. These two, along with Manx represent the q-celtic languages.

Ireland isn't united to England in any way... except by the UN. Northern Ireland, or Ulster, is part of the UK. Northern Ireland isn't part of Ireland.
The Scots don't like the English, but they are still part of the UK. England had this habit of invasion and war and then the more recent Highland Clearances and... well, the Scots don't like the English.

Answer 2

In Scottland there is Scottisch Gaelic, a Celtic language, and Lalans which is to all real purposes a separate language to English, as the two are not mutually understandable., although Lalans is a Germanic language like English

In the Republic of Ireland the official languages are Irish(a Celtic language) and English.
Both Scots and Irish are Celts, not Germanic people like the English.

In Northern Ireland, which in the Republic is also known as "The 6 Counties" the only official language is English, but the Catholic minority is increasingly demanding that Irish be made an official language too.

Answer 3

smurf doesn't exactly know what he's talking about. In general, the Scottish, the Welsh and the Irish speak english fluently or even natively. Minorities speak Gaelic, Welsh and Gaeilge - those are Celtic languages. Some scottish people speak "Scots" (similar names are lollans and doric), which is a germanic language so close to english that some people mistake it for a dialect. I'm certain that Gaeilge is taught in irish schools, I think Welsh is taught in welsh schools. They are not "dying". I'm not sure if scottish Gaelic is taught in schools, but it's still spoken on northscottish islands

Answer 4

They speak a Celtic lanauge know as Gaelic which is broken into three different Dialects- Irish, Man and Scottish. And know they are not English. They like England and even Germany were groups of manys tribes. Some would call the Barbaric. The English are Saxons. Irsh and scotts are not.

Answer 5

The Irish speak Gaelic, or at least some do.

The Scots, as I understand it, speak a dialect of English, not a separate language.

And, of course, like all of us, they can learn whatever languages they work at.

Scotland and Ireland are not parts of England, although Scotland and Wales are parts of Great Britain, and Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom (which also includes all of Great Britain). Ireland, Great Britain, and the other islands in the vicinity (the Orkneys, etc) are sometimes referred to collectively as the British Isles.

Answer 6

They speak a language called Gaelic. It was the orginal language of the natives, probably derived from Latin and French, until the English settled there.

Answer 7

Scottish and irish

Answer 8

Gaelige is the Celtic language spoken in Ireland and Gaidhlig is what is spoken in Scotland.

Answer 9

Gallic(sp?) & Welsh

Answer 10

galic.... and any other language they want to learn