XPost: soc.culture.scottish, soc.culture.irish, scot.scots
From: micheil@shaw.ca
On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 09:39:23 +0100, wrote:
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>"The Highlander" wrote in message
>news:vqvv03990vq6qkp9b1meoc6akgi2gqhtag@4ax.com...
>> On Sun, 1 Apr 2007 19:04:47 +0100, "gonzo"
>> wrote:
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>>>
>>> wrote in message
>>>news:zcednY-5GvIJ-5LbRVnytAA@bt.com...
>>>> YEE Ooilley-niartal, hug lheid y grayse da dty Ostyl casher-ick Noo
>>>
>>> I can't be bothered. Question is, why did you?
>>>
>> A chionn 's gu robh i mion-chànan Gàidhlige, agus 's e seo fòram
>> Albannaich agus dh'fhàiltich sinn cànain Ceilteich. Do chuideigin, mar
>> mi fhìn, aig nach eil ach Gàidhlig na h-Alba, tha i glè ùidheil.
>>
>> Beil thu tuigsinn Gàidhlig thu-fhèin?
Seadh direach, agus tha mi inntleachdach gu leòr a leughadh air fad.
Agus tha mi tuigsinn Gàidhlig mi-fhèin gun dhuilgheas, oir nuair a bha
mi nam oganach, thogadh mi anns an Eilean Rùm gu ìre agus bha Gàidhlig
cànan a bha cumanta gu leòr sna làithean ud.
(You bet - and I'm intelligent enough to read it in its entirety. And
I understand Gaelic myself as when I was a young person, I was partly
brought up on the Isle of Rum and Gaelic was a common enough language
in those days.)
>>
>Highlander is right. Gaelic of any description is really a spoken language
>rather then a written one.
Manx Gaelic - the strange-looking Gaelic above - is a combination
language derived from Ulster Gaelic and the Gaelic of Galloway in
south west Scotland. with some Welsh borrowings. What makes it look so
different is that it is the only Gaelic language without its own
alphabet and is written in English phonetics and thus can be read
aloud correctly by any non-Gaelic speaker who knows English. It is
reasonably intelligible to Scottish and Ulster Gaelic speakers, apart
from the borrowed Welsh words and some localisms.
>>
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