Glasgow Gaelic
Appearance
Glasgow Gaelic | |
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Scottish Gaelic of Glasgow | |
Scottish Gaelic: Gàidhlig Ghlaschu | |
Region | Glasgow |
Ethnicity | Glaswegians |
Native speakers | 5,739[1] |
Indo-European
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Early forms | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glasgow Gaelic is an emerging dialect of Scottish Gaelic[2][3] spoken by 10% of Scottish Gaelic speakers making it the most spoken Dialect outside of the Highlands.[4]
Glasgow Gaelic emerged due to Scottish Gaelic-medium education as well as a migration from the Outer Hebrides to Glasgow.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Census Results". scrol.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 11 April 2014.
- ^ McIntyre, Emmett (December 24, 2015). "Gaelic Language in Scotland's Largest City Thrives - Linguist Takes Note of Glaswegian Gaelic". Transceltic - Home of the Celtic nations.
- ^ Nance, Claire (September 15, 2015). "'New' Scottish Gaelic speakers in Glasgow: A phonetic study of language revitalisation". Language in Society. 44 (4): 553–579. doi:10.1017/S0047404515000408 – via Cambridge University Press.
- ^ "Evolution of 'Glasgow Gaelic'". www.royalcelticsociety.scot.
- ^ Nance, Claire (October 15, 2018). Smith-Christmas, Cassie; Ó Murchadha, Noel P.; Hornsby, Michael; Moriarty, Máiréad (eds.). New Speakers of Minority Languages: Linguistic Ideologies and Practices. Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 213–230. doi:10.1057/978-1-137-57558-6_11 – via Springer Link.