Gàidhealtachd

This airticle is aboot the Scots Gaelic-speaking airts. For the Irish-speaking airts, see Gaeltacht.

The Gàidhealtachd (Scots Gaelic pronunciation: [ˈkɛːəl̪ˠt̪əxk] ( listen); Inglis: Gaeldom^[1]) forordinar refers tae the Hielands an Islands o Scotland an the Gaelic-speaking cultur o these airts;^[1] likeways, the siclike Irish word Gaeltacht refers tae Irish-speaking airts o Ireland. These are baith historic launds o the Gaels an share a common Celtic culture.

Geographic distribution o Gaelic speakers in Scotland (2011)

Gaelic-leid road sign in Mallaig

History

Relatit page: Scots Gaelic § History

The Gaelic leid wi'in the Gàidhealtachd has a lang history; in the 1700s, Gaelic wis the main written an spaken leid o the Hielands but was confined to that pairt o Scotland.^[2] Syne the 16t-centurie, thar increasin uiss o Scots an Scots hank on Gaelic in and outwith the Gàidhealtachd; acause o the Statutes o Iona (1609) an the Scuilin Act (1616), mony Hieland Gaels wis gart to gang tae the Lallans an learn Inglis (then the term fae Lallans Scots).^[3]

The Gàidhealtachd o Maritime Canada.

The population o the Hielands reached its peak atween 1820 an 1840 in maist districts. However, there were mair (an increasin) numbers o Gaelic-speakin fowk in Scotland acause o migration tae the Lallans; wi migration in the late 18t-centurie, muckle Gaelic communities were fundat in Lallans touns an cities outwith Scotland an aa.^[2]

Outwith Scotland

In Canada, at yin time the Scots Gaelic leid wis the third maist spaken leid eftir Inglis an French (wi 50,000 speakers in Nova Scotia alane (1901)^[2]), an is still spaik bi a minority o Canadiens whase forebeirs cam fae Gaelic-speakin Scotland.^[4]

The Codroy Valley in Newfoondland had a Gaelic-speaking minority til the 1960s, wi its ain Scots Gaelic traditions an cultur.^[5] In 2011, 1,275 fowk in the Canadian Gàidhealtachd spaik Scots Gaelic, an aboot 300 fowk spaik the leid as thair main leid.^[6]

Reference

1. Dawson, Jane (1998). "The Gaidhealtachd and the emergence of the Scottish Highlands". British Consciousness and Identity: The Making of Britain, 1533–1707. Cambridge University Press: 259–300.
2. Brown, Ian (2006). Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: Enlightenment, Britain and Empire (1707-1918) (in Inglis). Edinburgh University Press. pp. 21–22. ISBN 978-0-7486-3064-6.
3. Horsburgh, Davie (1997). "'The hail kintra is gat begunkit': The thrawn historie o Scotlan's cultures". Cairn The Historie Jurnal in the Scots Leid. 1: 15-21.
4. Watson, Moray (2010). "Scottish Gaelic in Canada". Edinburgh Companion to the Gaelic Language (in Inglis). Edinburgh University Press. pp. 90–104. ISBN 978-0-7486-3710-2.
5. Margaret, Bennett (5 Juin 1975). "Some aspects of the Scottish Gaelic traditions of the Codroy Valley, Newfoundland". research.library.mun.ca.
6. StatCan, 2011

See an aw

• Bungee leid
• Hieland Inglis
• Newfoondland Erse
• Pibroch

Articles outwith

• "The art of the Gàidhealtachd" open.edu (in Inglis)

Further readin

• Bechhofer, Frank; McCrone, David (4 Mairch 2014). "What makes a Gael? Identity, language and ancestry in the Scottish Gàidhealtachd". Identities. 21 (2): 113–133. doi:10.1080/1070289X.2014.878249. ISSN 1070-289X.