do people in Scotland still speak the Gaelic?
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im from glasgow and out of the 5 million scottish inhabitants i would say maybe 1% speak gaelic. mostly in the highlands and islands. outer hebrides orkney shetland etc.
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Sounds like scottish, Irish, German, or maybe even english.
874509
Ive wanted to learn Gaelic for years now, but I havent been able to find anyone who can teach it.
595366
Neither.  There are a number of different American dialects and a number of different British dialects.  Moreover, in some ways, (standard) American English is more "conservative" (has changed less from older forms of the language) than (standard--RP) British English.  Also, it wasn't the *British* who spread the language throughout the world; it was the *English*.  The Welsh and Scots (and Irish if you mean "British Isles" rather than "Great Britain") only started speaking English (rather than their original Celtic languages) under rule by England.
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Try this.\n\nhttp://www.word2word.com/coursead.html#gaelic\n\nBlessings
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There were people in Britain long before the Celts came across, which I think was around 500 BC, but we don't know much about them, like what language they spoke. In fact people have been in Briatin continuousy for thousands of years.\n\nWhen the Romans came, they found people speaking a language similar to Welsh, and also similar to Gaulish spoken in France and Belgium. Many of the Celtic tribes still had connections with their cousins on the European mainland. In the North of Scotland were the Picts, who may have spoken a Celtic language - no-one knows for sure.\n\nThe Romans came and went, even though they were here for four hundred years it doesn't seem that they left many descendants in Britain. It was always a bit of an outpost of the Roman Empire, cold, remote, unattractive to settlers.\n\nThen betwen about 450-600 AD, the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and Frisians came from Holland, Northern Germany, and Denmark; they fought many wars with the (Welsh) Britons, overwhelming them. It seems that they were largely ethnically cleansed from most of England - many refugees went to France, to the area that came to be known as Little Britain, now Brittany. But Wales remained Welsh speaking, while Scotland was invaded by the Scots, an Irish tribe.\n\nLater, from around 800 AD, the Danes and Vikings came from Scandinavia. Originally they were just raiders, but they ended up settling much of Northern England.\n\nOf course, in 1066 we had the Normans coming from Northern France. They took their name from "Northmen", as Normandy had been conquered by Vikings previously, but they spoke a French dialect, and were probably descended more from Gauls and Romans than from Scandinavians.\n\nThankfully, that was the last serious invasion of Britain. Since then, there has been constant interchange of people with nearby countries, and those countries too with all their neighbours, so it is nothing surprising to find a little Mongol blood dating from their incursion into Europe, for example.\n\nWe had a large number of Protestant refugees from France - the Huguenots - in around 1680 - check \n\nhttp://www.huguenotsociety.org.uk/history/\n\nJews had also been present for hundreds of years, before they were expelled in 1290 - they were allowed back by Cromwell in about 1650. There were Italian merchants, and even Blacks were present in Shakespeare's time. More Blacks arrived as servants and freemen as Britain's Empire began to grow.\n\nMany Jews arrived from Eastern Europe from about 1880; there were also communities of Yemenis and Chinese, that originally arrived as seamen. In the 1930s we had Jewish refugees from Germany, and Basque refugees from Spain.\n\nDuring the Second World War, a large number of Poles came to fight against the Germans, and couldn't go back after because they couldn't accept the Communist regime. \n\nBecause of labour shortages, the British government recruited Italians and West Indians to work here; then people came from India, Pakistan and Bangla Desh. And since then, as the world has become a smaller and smaller place, people have come from all parts of the world, just as people have gone from here to all over.\n\nThere's nothing new about immigration, and nothing new about people's fears and hostility. But each wave of migrants gets absorbed into the population.
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1.Punjabi, Gujarati, Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, Sylheti (Bengali), Miripuri are the some of the languages spoken widely here in the UK. \n\n2.Hindi, Urdu, Gujrati and Sylheti forming the major proportion\n\n3.languages-originally from..\n   hindi/ urdu - india\n   gujarati - gujarat, india.\n   sylheti - it is a more vernacular form of bengali,, originated from Sylhet a state now in bangladesh but was in Assam india before partition. Most of the bangladeshi communities who say speak bengali actually speak the sylheti version of it.\n\n4. The speakers of these languages are widely spread throughout the uk but it is genarally said that places like Birmingham and Blackburn, Bolton have many urdu speaking communties. Lancashire, Manchester is full of Bangladeshi sylheti speaking people.Gujaratis are everywhere but mostly in London and Preston\n\n5.People who speak hindi can generally understand urdu gujarati and punjabi to some extent. Bengali speaking people understand Sylheti vive versa..\n\ni guess that must have answered ur question.. :-)\n\n    \n.
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Dude, \n\nDon't worry scotlands a nice little country, \n\nYou'll always be able to count on my support!!\n\nCheers!!\n\n(Now get out there and qualify you guys, please?)
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I think that Scotland and Wales both have their own identity and language and there are probably separatist movements.  Northern Ireland should be returned to Ireland IMHO.
1118067
Absolutely British.  As in they hold a British Passport !\n\nThere is no animosity between England and Scotland like there is between England and Ireland because England didn't occupy and segregate a part of Scotland as they did in Northern Ireland.  Secondly, there is no religious warring factions in Scotland as in the case of the Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland.
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It's hard to tell which was colonized first in ancient times- they were both first settled in prehistoric times. People were in Scotland and Ireland many thousands of years ago.\n\nAs far as the Gaelic speakers, Ireland was colonized by those who spoke Gaelic first. Those who spoke Gaelic originally came from Galicia in NW Spain to Ireland. A couple of hundred years later, some of the Gaels migrated to Scotland (as well as Isle of Man).
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I'm not from Scotland, but their woman have the sexiest accents in the world!\n\nNemo me impune lacessit!
1016225
Defo everyone in Scotland...tee-hee!\n;-)
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In Scotland it's quite normal to have conversations with strangers- usual justsmall talk about the weather or public transport that hasn't turned up.  When i was visiting friends in the South of England though and I did the same thing people looked and me strangely and tended to ignore me.  seems it's not onlt personal but cultural
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i like the scots, friendly, funny and helpful people! just cant get a drink out of them   ; )
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I don't think British people as a whole are rude. If you take english people they tend to be considered as reserved and not talkative (i.e. to strangers) when compared to, say, the USA or some other European countries (Italy or Spain for example) where people are more outgoing. I've foumd that scottish people are more outgoing and more outwardly friendly than an average english person. Where British people do seem rude is that there is a big yob culture these days and it is pretty ugly.
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SCOTS COULD THE HIGHLAND FLING\nIRISH DO THE RIVER DANCE\nWELSH COULD DO  DAWNS Y CLOGS/GWERIN\nME THINKS NOT.................