• kralk@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    No, the two languages have separate roots. Gaelic is often called Scots Gaelic to distinguish it from Irish, though.

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      8 months ago

      Thanks for that. My family immigrated from Scotland a billion years ago or so, and we were always told they spoke mostly Gaelic. When I look at the language map they were from the Gaelic speaking islands that I now know are part of the Goidelic language family. Scots is in the south and part of the Brittonic language family. I can see more reading ahead.

      • Bob@feddit.nl
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        8 months ago

        Scots is Germanic. Brittonic is a subfamily of Celtic languages that includes Welsh and Cornish.