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Deeside Gaelic is an extinct dialect of Scottish Gaelic spoken in Aberdeenshire until 1984.[1] Unlike a lot of extinct dialects of Scottish Gaelic, it is relatively well attested. A lot of the work pertaining to Deeside Gaelic was done by Frances Carney Diack,[2][3] and was expanded upon by David Clement, Adam Watson[4] and Seumas Grannd.[5]
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| Deeside Gaelic | |
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| Aberdeenshire Gaelic | |
| Scottish Gaelic: Gàidhlig Shrath Deathain | |
| Region | Aberdeenshire |
| Extinct | 18 March 1984, with the death of Jean Bain |
Indo-European
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Early forms | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | gd |
| ISO 639-2 | gla |
| ISO 639-3 | gla |
| Glottolog | scot1245 |
  Braemar Inverey Tullich Glen Muick Strathdon Crathie Strathspey | |
In Aberdeenshire, 18% of Crathie and Braemar and as much as 61% in Inverey were bilingual in 1891.[6] By 1984, the dialect had died out.
In the mid-20th Century the Scottish Gaelic Dialect Survey was undertaken when there were still people who spoke Deeside Gaelic. Features of Deeside Gaelic include:
- dropping of unstressed syllables; an example of this is the Word "Duine" becoming "duin'"[7]
- weakening of the /o/ to a /u/ sound, words such as "Dol" being pronounced closer to "Dul"[8]
- slender nn being pronounced like an English ng [9]
- mutation of f instead of being dropped is pronounced as a /v/ or /b/ or /p/ in Speyside[10]
- dropping of -adh, words such as tuilleadh being recorded as tull[11]
- conditional final stop; conditional tense was realised as a /g/ or /k/ sound in Braemar[12]
- shortening of words; words such as agaibh being pronounced closer to "aki" and cinnteach being shortened to cinnt [13]
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