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Scottish Gaelic

Index Scottish Gaelic

Scottish Gaelic (endonym: Gàidhlig), also known as Scots Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland. [1]

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  1. 275 relations: Aberdeen City Council, Aberdeenshire, Acute accent, Affect (psychology), Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba, Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, Alphabet, An Comunn Gàidhealach, Anglo-Normans, Anne Frater, Ardnamurchan, Argyll, Argyll and Bute, Arran Gaelic, Astra 28.2°E, Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger, Ayrshire, Bain (surname), Barra, Barvas, Bòrd na Gàidhlig, BBC Alba, BBC News, BBC News Online, BBC Radio nan Gàidheal, BBC Scotland, Benbecula, Beurla Reagaird, Bible, Book of the Dean of Lismore, Bowie (surname), Bríatharogam, British Columbia, British North America, Brittonic languages, Canada, Canadian Gaelic, Cape Breton Island, Cape Breton University, Catholic Church, Celtic languages, Celtic onomastics, Church of Scotland, Civil parishes in Scotland, Close-mid vowel, Colonel Gray High School, Colonsay, Columba Project, Common Era, Consonant, ... Expand index (225 more) »

  2. Endangered Celtic languages
  3. Fusional languages
  4. Languages of Canada
  5. Languages of the United Kingdom

Aberdeen City Council

Aberdeen City Council (Aiberdeen Ceitie Cooncil, Comhairle Cathair Obar Dheathain) is the local government authority for the city of Aberdeen, Scotland.

See Scottish Gaelic and Aberdeen City Council

Aberdeenshire

Aberdeenshire (Aiberdeenshire; Siorrachd Obar Dheathain) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland.

See Scottish Gaelic and Aberdeenshire

Acute accent

The acute accent,, because of rendering limitation in Android (as of v13), that its default sans font fails to render "dotted circle + diacritic", so visitors just get a meaningless (to most) mark.

See Scottish Gaelic and Acute accent

Affect (psychology)

Affect, in psychology, is the underlying experience of feeling, emotion, attachment, or mood.

See Scottish Gaelic and Affect (psychology)

Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba

Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba ("Gaelic Place-Names of Scotland") is the national advisory partnership for Gaelic place names in Scotland. Scottish Gaelic and Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba are Scottish Gaelic language.

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Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair

Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (c. 1698–1770), legal name Alexander MacDonald, or, in Gaelic Alasdair MacDhòmhnaill, was a Scottish war poet, satirist, lexicographer, and memoirist.

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Alphabet

An alphabet is a standard set of letters written to represent particular sounds in a spoken language.

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An Comunn Gàidhealach

An Comunn Gàidhealach (literally "The Gaelic Association"), commonly known as An Comunn, is a Scottish organisation that supports and promotes the Scottish Gaelic language and Scottish Gaelic culture and history at local, national and international levels. Scottish Gaelic and an Comunn Gàidhealach are Scottish Gaelic language.

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Anglo-Normans

The Anglo-Normans (Anglo-Normaunds, Engel-Norðmandisca) were the medieval ruling class in the Kingdom of England following the Norman Conquest.

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Anne Frater

Anne Frater (born 1967) is a Scottish poet.

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Ardnamurchan

Ardnamurchan (Àird nam Murchan: headland of the great seas) is a peninsula in the ward management area of Lochaber, Highland, Scotland, noted for being very unspoiled and undisturbed.

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Argyll

Argyll (archaically Argyle; Earra-Ghàidheal), sometimes called Argyllshire, is a historic county and registration county of western Scotland.

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Argyll and Bute

Argyll and Bute (Argyll an Buit; Earra-Ghàidheal agus Bòd) is one of 32 unitary council areas in Scotland and a lieutenancy area.

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Arran Gaelic

Arran Gaelic is an extinct dialect of Scottish Gaelic that was spoken on the Isle of Arran, and one of the last of the Southern Dialects to go extinct. Scottish Gaelic and Arran Gaelic are languages of the United Kingdom.

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Astra 28.2°E

Astra 28.2°E is the name for the group of Astra communications satellites co-located at the 28.2° East position in the Clarke Belt that are owned and operated by SES based in Betzdorf, Luxembourg.

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Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

The UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger was an online publication containing a comprehensive list of the world's endangered languages.

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Ayrshire

Ayrshire (Siorrachd Inbhir Àir) is a historic county and registration county, in south-west Scotland, located on the shores of the Firth of Clyde.

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Bain (surname)

Bain or Bains is an English, French, Punjabi (Jatt), and Scottish surname.

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Barra

Barra (Barraigh or Eilean Bharraigh; Barra) is an island in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, and the second southernmost inhabited island there, after the adjacent island of Vatersay to which it is connected by the Vatersay Causeway.

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Barvas

Barvas (Scottish Gaelic: Barabhas or Barbhas) is a settlement, community and civil parish on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland.

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Bòrd na Gàidhlig

italic is the executive non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government with responsibility for Gaelic. Scottish Gaelic and Bòrd na Gàidhlig are Scottish Gaelic language.

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BBC Alba

BBC Alba is a Scottish Gaelic-language free-to-air public broadcast television channel jointly owned by the BBC and MG Alba.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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BBC News Online

BBC News Online is the website of BBC News, the division of the BBC responsible for newsgathering and production.

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BBC Radio nan Gàidheal

BBC Radio nan Gàidheal is a Scottish Gaelic language radio station owned and operated by BBC Scotland, a division of the BBC.

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BBC Scotland

BBC Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: BBC Alba) is a division of the BBC and the main public broadcaster in Scotland.

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Benbecula

Benbecula (Beinn nam Fadhla or Beinn na Faoghla) is an island of the Outer Hebrides in the Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of Scotland.

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Beurla Reagaird

Beurla Reagaird (previously also spelled Beurla Reagair or Beurla-reagaird) is a nearly extinct, Scottish Gaelic-based cant used by the indigenous Traveller community of the Highlands of Scotland, formerly often referred to by the disparaging name "tinkers".

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Bible

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία,, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions.

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Book of the Dean of Lismore

The Book of the Dean of Lismore (Leabhar Deathan Lios Mòir) is a Scottish manuscript, compiled in eastern Perthshire in the first half of the 16th century.

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Bowie (surname)

Bowie is a Scottish and Irish surname.

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Bríatharogam

In early Irish literature, a Bríatharogam ("word ogham", plural Bríatharogaim) is a two-word kenning which explains the meanings of the names of the letters of the Ogham alphabet.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada.

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British North America

British North America comprised the colonial territories of the British Empire in North America from 1783 onwards.

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Brittonic languages

The Brittonic languages (also Brythonic or British Celtic; ieithoedd Brythonaidd/Prydeinig; yethow brythonek/predennek; and yezhoù predenek) form one of the two branches of the Insular Celtic language family; the other is Goidelic.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Canadian Gaelic

Canadian Gaelic or Cape Breton Gaelic (Gàidhlig Chanada, A' Ghàidhlig Chanadach or Gàidhlig Cheap Bhreatainn), often known in Canadian English simply as Gaelic, is a collective term for the dialects of Scottish Gaelic spoken in Atlantic Canada. Scottish Gaelic and Canadian Gaelic are endangered Celtic languages, languages of Canada and Scottish Gaelic language.

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Cape Breton Island

Cape Breton Island (île du Cap-Breton, formerly île Royale; Ceap Breatainn or Eilean Cheap Bhreatainn; Unamaꞌki) is a rugged and irregularly shaped island on the Atlantic coast of North America and part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Cape Breton University

Cape Breton University (CBU) is a public university located in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Celtic languages

The Celtic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family, descended from Proto-Celtic.

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Celtic onomastics

Onomastics is an important source of information on the early Celts, as Greco-Roman historiography recorded Celtic names before substantial written information becomes available in any Celtic language.

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Church of Scotland

The Church of Scotland (The Kirk o Scotland; Eaglais na h-Alba) is a Presbyterian denomination of Christianity that holds the status of the national church in Scotland.

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Civil parishes in Scotland

Civil parishes are small divisions used for statistical purposes and formerly for local government in Scotland.

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Close-mid vowel

A close-mid vowel (also mid-close vowel, high-mid vowel, mid-high vowel or half-close vowel) is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.

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Colonel Gray High School

Colonel Gray Sr.

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Colonsay

Colonsay (Colbhasa; Colonsay) is an island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, located north of Islay and south of Mull.

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Columba Project

The Columba Project (Gaelic: Iomairt Cholm Cille), formerly known as the Columba Initiative, is a program for Gaelic speakers in Scotland and Ireland to meet each other more often, and in so doing to learn more of the language, heritage and lifestyles of one another. Scottish Gaelic and Columba Project are Scottish Gaelic language.

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Common Era

Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era.

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Consonant

In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract, except for the h, which is pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract.

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Constantine II of Scotland

Causantín mac Áeda (Modern Gaelic: Còiseam mac Aoidh, anglicised Constantine II; born no later than 879; died 952) was an early King of Scotland, known then by the Gaelic name Alba.

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David I of Scotland

David I or Dauíd mac Maíl Choluim (Modern Gaelic: Daibhidh I mac Chaluim; – 24 May 1153) was a 12th century ruler and saint who was Prince of the Cumbrians from 1113 to 1124 and later King of Scotland from 1124 to 1153.

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Dál Riata

Dál Riata or Dál Riada (also Dalriada) was a Gaelic kingdom that encompassed the western seaboard of Scotland and north-eastern Ireland, on each side of the North Channel.

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Deeside Gaelic

Deeside Gaelic is an extinct dialect of Scottish Gaelic spoken in Aberdeenshire until 1984. Scottish Gaelic and Deeside Gaelic are languages of the United Kingdom.

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Diacritic

A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph.

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Digraph (orthography)

A digraph or digram is a pair of characters used in the orthography of a language to write either a single phoneme (distinct sound), or a sequence of phonemes that does not correspond to the normal values of the two characters combined.

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Diphthong

A diphthong, also known as a gliding vowel or a vowel glide, is a combination of two adjacent vowel sounds within the same syllable.

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Donald III of Scotland

Donald III (Medieval Gaelic: Domnall mac Donnchada; Modern Gaelic: Dòmhnall mac Dhonnchaidh; –1099) was King of Alba (Scotland) from 1093–1094 and 1094–1097.

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Duff (surname)

The surname Duff has several origins.

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Dugald Buchanan

Dugald Buchanan (Dùghall Bochanan in Gaelic) (Ardoch Farm, Strathyre (near Balquhidder) in Perthshire, Scotland 1716–1768) was a Scottish poet writing in Scots and Scottish Gaelic.

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Dumfriesshire

Dumfriesshire or the County of Dumfries or Shire of Dumfries (Siorrachd Dhùn Phris) is a historic county and registration county in southern Scotland.

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Duncan Ban MacIntyre

Donnchadh Bàn Mac an t-Saoir, anglicized as Duncan Ban MacIntyre (20 March 1724 – 14 May 1812), was one of the most renowned of Scottish Gaelic poets.

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Dunn (surname)

Dunn is a surname of English and Scottish origins.

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Duolingo

Duolingo, Inc. is an American educational technology company that produces learning apps and provides language certification.

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Early Modern Irish

Early Modern Irish (Classical Irish) represented a transition between Middle Irish and Modern Irish.

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Early Scots

Early Scots was the emerging literary language of the Early Middle English-speaking parts of Scotland in the period before 1450.

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East Ayrshire

East Ayrshire (Aest Ayrshire; Siorrachd Àir an Ear) is one of 32 unitary council areas of Scotland.

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East Sutherland Gaelic

East Sutherland Gaelic (Chataibh) is an extinct dialect of Scottish Gaelic that was spoken in fishing villages on the eastern coast of Sutherland, especially in Brora, Golspie, and Embo.

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Education (Scotland) Act 1872

The Education (Scotland) Act 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 62) made elementary education for all children between the ages of 5 and 13 mandatory in Scotland.

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Endangered Languages Project

The Endangered Languages Project (ELP) is a worldwide collaboration between indigenous language organizations, linguists, institutions of higher education, and key industry partners to strengthen endangered languages.

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Endonym and exonym

An endonym (also known as autonym) is a common, native name for a group of people, individual person, geographical place, language or dialect, meaning that it is used inside a particular group or linguistic community to identify or designate themselves, their homeland, or their language.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain. Scottish Gaelic and English language are Fusional languages, languages of Canada and languages of the United Kingdom.

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European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages

The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML) is a European treaty (CETS 148) adopted in 1992 under the auspices of the Council of Europe to protect and promote historical regional and minority languages in Europe.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Ewan Campbell

Ewan Campbell is a Scottish archaeologist and author, who serves as the senior lecturer of archaeology at the University of Glasgow.

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Fernaig manuscript

The Fernaig manuscript (Làmh-sgrìobhainn Fheàrnaig or Làmh-sgrìobhainn MhicRath) is a document containing approximately 4,200 lines of verse consisting largely of political and religious themes.

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First language

A first language (L1), native language, native tongue, or mother tongue is the first language a person has been exposed to from birth or within the critical period.

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Free Church of Scotland (since 1900)

The Free Church of Scotland (An Eaglais Shaor) is a conservative evangelical Calvinist denomination in Scotland.

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Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland

The Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland (FPC Church; An Eaglais Shaor Chlèireach) was formed in 1893.

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Freesat

Freesat is a British free-to-air satellite television service, first formed as a joint venture between the BBC and ITV plc and now owned by Everyone TV (itself owned by all of the four UK public service broadcasters, BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5).

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Freeview (UK)

Freeview is the United Kingdom's sole digital terrestrial television platform.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. Scottish Gaelic and French language are Fusional languages and languages of Canada.

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Fusional language

Fusional languages or inflected languages are a type of synthetic language, distinguished from agglutinative languages by their tendency to use single inflectional morphemes to denote multiple grammatical, syntactic, or semantic features. Scottish Gaelic and Fusional language are Fusional languages.

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Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act 2005

The Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act 2005 (Achd na Gàidhlig (Alba) 2005) is an Act of the Scottish Parliament passed in 2005. Scottish Gaelic and Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act 2005 are Scottish Gaelic language.

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Gaelicisation

Gaelicisation, or Gaelicization, is the act or process of making something Gaelic, or gaining characteristics of the Gaels, a sub-branch of celticisation.

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Gaels

The Gaels (Na Gaeil; Na Gàidheil; Ny Gaeil) are an ethnolinguistic group native to Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man.

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Galloway

Galloway (Gallowa; Gallovidia) is a region in southwestern Scotland comprising the historic counties of Wigtownshire and Kirkcudbrightshire.

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Galwegian Gaelic

Galwegian Gaelic (also known as Gallovidian Gaelic, Gallowegian Gaelic, or Galloway Gaelic) is an extinct dialect of Scottish Gaelic formerly spoken in southwest Scotland. Scottish Gaelic and Galwegian Gaelic are languages of the United Kingdom.

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Gàidhealtachd

The Gàidhealtachd (English: Gaeldom) usually refers to the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and especially the Scottish Gaelic-speaking culture of the area. Scottish Gaelic and Gàidhealtachd are Scottish Gaelic language.

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Germanic languages

The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania and Southern Africa.

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Gigha

Gigha (italic; Gigha) or the Isle of Gigha (and formerly Gigha Island) is an island off the west coast of Kintyre in Scotland.

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Glasgow

Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.

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Glasgow Gaelic School

Glasgow Gaelic School (Scottish Gaelic: Sgoil Ghàidhlig Ghlaschu) is a primary and secondary school in Glasgow, Scotland which teaches through the medium of Scottish Gaelic.

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Glengarry County, Ontario

Glengarry County, an area covering, is a former county in the province of Ontario, Canada.

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Goidelic languages

The Goidelic or Gaelic languages (teangacha Gaelacha; cànanan Goidhealach; çhengaghyn Gaelgagh) form one of the two groups of Insular Celtic languages, the other being the Brittonic languages.

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Government of the United Kingdom

The Government of the United Kingdom (formally His Majesty's Government, abbreviated to HM Government) is the central executive authority of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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Grammatical aspect

In linguistics, aspect is a grammatical category that expresses how a verbal action, event, or state, extends over time.

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Grammatical gender

In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns.

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Grammatical mood

In linguistics, grammatical mood is a grammatical feature of verbs, used for signaling modality.

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Grammatical number

In linguistics, grammatical number is a feature of nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one", "two" or "three or more").

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Grammatical person

In linguistics, grammatical person is the grammatical distinction between deictic references to participant(s) in an event; typically, the distinction is between the speaker (first person), the addressee (second person), and others (third person).

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Grammatical tense

In grammar, tense is a category that expresses time reference.

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Grampian Television

Grampian Television was the original name of the Channel 3 service for the north of Scotland founded in 1961 and now named STV.

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Grave accent

The grave accent because of rendering limitation in Android (as of v13), that its default sans font fails to render "dotted circle + diacritic", so visitors just get a meaningless (to most) mark.

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Greek language

Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean. Scottish Gaelic and Greek language are Fusional languages.

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Greyfriars Kirk

Greyfriars Kirk (Eaglais nam Manach Liath) is a parish church of the Church of Scotland, located in the Old Town of Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Harris, Outer Hebrides

Harris (Na Hearadh) is the southern and more mountainous part of Lewis and Harris, the largest island in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland.

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High Court of Justiciary

The High Court of Justiciary (Àrd-chùirt a' Cheartais) is the supreme criminal court in Scotland.

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Highland (council area)

Highland (Gàidhealtachd,; Hieland) is a council area in the Scottish Highlands and is the largest local government area in the United Kingdom.

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Highland Clearances

The Highland Clearances (Fuadaichean nan Gàidheal, the "eviction of the Gaels") were the evictions of a significant number of tenants in the Scottish Highlands and Islands, mostly in two phases from 1750 to 1860.

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HMY Iolaire

HMY Iolaire was an Admiralty Yacht that sank at the entrance to Stornoway harbour on 1 January 1919, with the loss of at least 201 men out of the 283 on board.

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Indigenous language

An indigenous language, or autochthonous language, is a language that is native to a region and spoken by its indigenous peoples.

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Indo-European languages

The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent.

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Inner Hebrides

The Inner Hebrides (the Inner Isles) is an archipelago off the west coast of mainland Scotland, to the south east of the Outer Hebrides.

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Insular Celtic languages

Insular Celtic languages are the group of Celtic languages spoken in Brittany, Great Britain, Ireland, and the Isle of Man.

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Insular script

Insular script is a medieval script system originating from Ireland that spread to England and continental Europe under the influence of Irish Christianity.

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Inverness

Inverness (Innerness; from the Inbhir Nis, meaning "Mouth of the River Ness") is a city in the Scottish Highlands, having been granted city status in 2000.

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Iona

Iona (Ì Chaluim Chille, sometimes simply Ì) is an island in the Inner Hebrides, off the Ross of Mull on the western coast of Scotland.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.

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Irish language

Irish (Standard Irish: Gaeilge), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language group, which is a part of the Indo-European language family. Scottish Gaelic and Irish language are Fusional languages and verb–subject–object languages.

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Irish orthography

Irish orthography is the set of conventions used to write Irish.

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Islay

Islay (Ìle, Ila) is the southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.

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Isle of Lewis

The Isle of Lewis (Eilean Leòdhais) or simply Lewis (Leòdhas) is the northern part of Lewis and Harris, the largest island of the Western Isles or Outer Hebrides archipelago in Scotland.

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Isle of Skye

The Isle of Skye, or simply Skye (An t-Eilean Sgitheanach or Eilean a' Cheò), is the largest and northernmost of the major islands in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV, legally known as Channel 3, is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network.

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Jacobite rising of 1715

The Jacobite rising of 1715 (Bliadhna Sheumais; or 'the Fifteen') was the attempt by James Edward Stuart (the Old Pretender) to regain the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland for the exiled Stuarts.

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James VI and I

James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until his death in 1625.

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Jim Murphy

James Francis Murphy (born 23 August 1967) is a Scottish former politician who served as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party from 2014 to 2015 and Secretary of State for Scotland from 2008 to 2010.

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Kilmuir, Skye

Kilmuir (Scottish Gaelic: Cille Mhoire) is a village on the west coast of the Trotternish peninsula in the north of the island of Skye, and a civil parish covering the north of the peninsula.

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Kim Darroch

Nigel Kim Darroch, Baron Darroch of Kew, (born 30 April 1954) is a former British diplomat.

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Kingdom of Scotland

The Kingdom of Scotland was a sovereign state in northwest Europe, traditionally said to have been founded in 843. Its territories expanded and shrank, but it came to occupy the northern third of the island of Great Britain, sharing a land border to the south with the Kingdom of England. During the Middle Ages, Scotland engaged in intermittent conflict with England, most prominently the Wars of Scottish Independence, which saw the Scots assert their independence from the English.

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Language revitalization

Language revitalization, also referred to as language revival or reversing language shift, is an attempt to halt or reverse the decline of a language or to revive an extinct one.

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Languages of Europe

There are over 250 languages indigenous to Europe, and most belong to the Indo-European language family.

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Languages of the European Union

The European Union (EU) has 24 official languages, of which threeEnglish, French and Germanhave the status of "procedural" languages of the European Commission (whereas the European Parliament accepts all official languages as working languages).

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Lateral consonant

A lateral is a consonant in which the airstream proceeds along one or both of the sides of the tongue, but it is blocked by the tongue from going through the middle of the mouth.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Scottish Gaelic and Latin are Fusional languages.

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Latin script

The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia.

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Lenition

In linguistics, lenition is a sound change that alters consonants, making them more sonorous.

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Leslie Alcock

Leslie Alcock (24 April 1925 – 6 June 2006) was Professor of Archaeology at the University of Glasgow, and one of the leading archaeologists of Early Medieval Britain.

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Letter (alphabet)

In a writing system, a letter is a grapheme that generally corresponds to a phoneme—the smallest functional unit of speech—though there is rarely total one-to-one correspondence between the two.

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Lews Castle College

UHI North, West, and Hebrides (formerly UHI Outer Hebrides and Lews Castle College) (Colaisde a' Chaisteil, meaning literally "College of the Castle") is a further and higher education college in the Western Isles of Scotland.

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Linguistic Survey of Scotland

The Linguistic Survey of Scotland was a long-term project at the University of Edinburgh to cover the use of language in Scotland, including Scottish English, Scots and Scottish Gaelic. Scottish Gaelic and Linguistic Survey of Scotland are Scottish Gaelic language.

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Liquid consonant

In linguistics, a liquid consonant or simply liquid is any of a class of consonants that consists of rhotics and voiced lateral approximants, which are also sometimes described as "R-like sounds" and "L-like sounds".

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Lismore, Scotland

Lismore (Lios Mòr, possibly meaning "great enclosure" or "garden") is an island of some in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.

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Literary language

Literary language is the form (register) of a language used when writing in a formal, academic, or particularly polite tone; when speaking or writing in such a tone, it can also be known as formal language.

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Loanword

A loanword (also a loan word, loan-word) is a word at least partly assimilated from one language (the donor language) into another language (the recipient or target language), through the process of borrowing.

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Loch

Loch is a word meaning "lake" or "sea inlet" in Scottish and Irish Gaelic, subsequently borrowed into English.

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Lochaber

Lochaber (Loch Abar) is a name applied to a part of the Scottish Highlands.

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Lonely Planet

Lonely Planet is a travel guide book publisher.

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Lord of the Isles

Lord of the Isles or King of the Isles (Triath nan Eilean or Rìgh Innse Gall; Dominus Insularum) is a title of nobility in the Baronage of Scotland with historical roots that go back beyond the Kingdom of Scotland.

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Lothian

Lothian (Lowden, Loudan, -en, -o(u)n; Lodainn) is a region of the Scottish Lowlands, lying between the southern shore of the Firth of Forth and the Lammermuir Hills and the Moorfoot Hills.

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Malcolm III of Scotland

Malcolm III (label; Maol Chaluim mac Dhonnchaidh; c. 1031–13 November 1093) was King of Alba from 1058 to 1093.

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Manx language

Manx (Gaelg or Gailck, or), also known as Manx Gaelic, is a Gaelic language of the insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family, itself a branch of the Indo-European language family. Scottish Gaelic and Manx language are endangered Celtic languages, languages of the United Kingdom and verb–subject–object languages.

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Mòd

A mòd is an Eisteddfod-inspired festival of Scottish Gaelic song, arts and culture. Scottish Gaelic and mòd are Scottish Gaelic language.

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MG Alba

Gaelic Media Service (Seirbheis nam Meadhanan Gàidhlig), doing business as MG Alba, is a Scottish statutory organisation that produces Scottish Gaelic programmes for broadcast in Scotland.

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Michael Russell (Scottish politician)

Michael William Russell (born 9 August 1953) is a Scottish politician serving as Chairman of the Scottish Land Commission since 2024, having previously served in the Scottish Cabinet under Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon.

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Mid-Minch Gaelic

Mid-Minch Gaelic (Gàidhlig meadhan na mara) is a currently developing pan-regional form of Scottish Gaelic, loosely based on the surviving dialects of Scottish Gaelic with considerable numbers of speakers.

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Middle English

Middle English (abbreviated to ME) is a form of the English language that was spoken after the Norman Conquest of 1066, until the late 15th century.

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Middle Irish

Middle Irish, also called Middle Gaelic (An Mheán-Ghaeilge, Meadhan-Ghàidhlig), is the Goidelic language which was spoken in Ireland, most of Scotland and the Isle of Man from AD; it is therefore a contemporary of late Old English and early Middle English. Scottish Gaelic and Middle Irish are Scottish Gaelic language.

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Midlothian

Midlothian (Meadhan Lodainn) is a historic county, registration county, lieutenancy area and one of 32 council areas of Scotland used for local government.

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Monolingualism

Monoglottism (Greek μόνος monos, "alone, solitary", + γλῶττα, "tongue, language") or, more commonly, monolingualism or unilingualism, is the condition of being able to speak only a single language, as opposed to multilingualism.

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Moray

Moray (Moireibh or Moireabh) is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland.

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Morphology (linguistics)

In linguistics, morphology is the study of words, including the principles by which they are formed, and how they relate to one another within a language.

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Moscow State University

Moscow State University (MSU; Moskovskiy gosudarstvennyy universitet) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia.

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Mull of Kintyre

The Mull of Kintyre is the southwesternmost tip of the Kintyre Peninsula (formerly Cantyre) in southwest Scotland.

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Multilingualism

Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers.

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Nasal consonant

In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive or nasal stop in contrast with an oral stop or nasalized consonant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose.

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Nasal vowel

A nasal vowel is a vowel that is produced with a lowering of the soft palate (or velum) so that the air flow escapes through the nose and the mouth simultaneously, as in the French vowel /ɑ̃/ or Amoy.

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Neologism

In linguistics, a neologism (also known as a coinage) is any newly formed word, term, or phrase that nevertheless has achieved popular or institutional recognition and is becoming accepted into mainstream language.

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New Testament

The New Testament (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon.

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Norn language

Norn is an extinct North Germanic language that was spoken in the Northern Isles (Orkney and Shetland) off the north coast of mainland Scotland and in Caithness in the far north of the Scottish mainland.

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North Channel (Great Britain and Ireland)

The North Channel (known in Irish and Scottish Gaelic as Sruth na Maoile, in Scots as the Sheuch) is the strait between north-eastern Northern Ireland and south-western Scotland.

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North Glengarry

North Glengarry is a township in eastern Ontario, Canada, in the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry.

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North Lanarkshire

North Lanarkshire (North Lanrikshire; Siorrachd Lannraig a Tuath) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland.

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North Uist

North Uist (Uibhist a Tuath; North Uise) is an island and community in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.

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Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia is a province of Canada, located on its east coast.

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Official language

An official language is a language having certain rights to be used in defined situations.

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Ogham

Ogham (Modern Irish:; ogum, ogom, later ogam) is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to write the early Irish language (in the "orthodox" inscriptions, 4th to 6th centuries AD), and later the Old Irish language (scholastic ogham, 6th to 9th centuries).

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Old Irish

Old Irish, also called Old Gaelic (Goídelc, Ogham script: ᚌᚑᚔᚇᚓᚂᚉ; Sean-Ghaeilge; Seann-Ghàidhlig; Shenn Yernish or Shenn Ghaelg), is the oldest form of the Goidelic/Gaelic language for which there are extensive written texts.

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Old Norse

Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages.

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Ontario

Ontario is the southernmost province of Canada.

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Ordnance Survey

The Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain.

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Orkney

Orkney (Orkney; Orkneyjar; Orknøjar), also known as the Orkney Islands (archaically "The Orkneys"), is an archipelago off the north coast of Scotland.

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Orthography

An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word boundaries, emphasis, and punctuation.

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Outer Hebrides

The Outer Hebrides or Western Isles (na h-Eileanan Siar, na h-Eileanan an Iar or label; Waster Isles), sometimes known as the Long Isle or Long Island (an t-Eilean Fada), is an island chain off the west coast of mainland Scotland.

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Palatalization (phonetics)

In phonetics, palatalization or palatization is a way of pronouncing a consonant in which part of the tongue is moved close to the hard palate.

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Palate

The palate is the roof of the mouth in humans and other mammals.

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Phoneme

In linguistics and specifically phonology, a phoneme is any set of similar phones (speech sounds) that is perceptually regarded by the speakers of a language as a single distinct unit, a single basic sound, which helps distinguish one word from another.

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Pictish language

Pictish is an extinct Brittonic Celtic language spoken by the Picts, the people of eastern and northern Scotland from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages.

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Picts

The Picts were a group of peoples in what is now Scotland north of the Firth of Forth, in the Early Middle Ages.

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Preaspiration

In phonetics, preaspiration (sometimes spelled pre-aspiration) is a period of voicelessness or aspiration preceding the closure of a voiceless obstruent, basically equivalent to an -like sound preceding the obstruent.

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Presbyterianism

Presbyterianism is a Reformed (Calvinist) Protestant tradition named for its form of church government by representative assemblies of elders.

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Primitive Irish

Primitive Irish or Archaic Irish (Gaeilge Ársa, Gaeilge Chianach), also called Proto-Goidelic, is the oldest known form of the Goidelic languages, and the ancestor of all languages within this family.

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Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island (PEI;;; colloquially known as the Island) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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Privy Council of Scotland

The Privy Council of Scotland (— 1 May 1708) was a body that advised the Scottish monarch.

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Raasay

Raasay (Ratharsair), sometimes the Isle of Raasay, is an island between the Isle of Skye and the mainland of Scotland.

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Radio Canada International

Radio Canada International (RCI) is the international broadcasting service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).

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Rannoch

Rannoch (Raineach or Raithneach, meaning 'bracken') is an area of the Scottish Highlands between the A9 road, to the east, and the A82, to the west.

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Rathlin Island

Rathlin Island (Reachlainn,; Local Irish dialect: Reachraidh,; Scots: Racherie) is an island and civil parish off the coast of County Antrim (of which it is part) in Northern Ireland.

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Renfrewshire

Renfrewshire (Renfrewshire; Siorrachd Rinn Friù) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland.

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River Clyde

The River Clyde (Abhainn Chluaidh,, Clyde Watter, or Watter o Clyde) is a river that flows into the Firth of Clyde, in the west of Scotland.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Sabhal Mòr Ostaig

Sabhal Mòr Ostaig is a public higher education college situated in the Sleat peninsula in the south of the Isle of Skye, Scotland with an associate campus at Bowmore on the island of Islay.

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Saint Margaret of Scotland

Saint Margaret of Scotland (Naomh Maighréad; Saunt Marget), also known as Margaret of Wessex, was an English princess and a Scottish queen.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Scots language

ScotsThe endonym for Scots is Scots. Scottish Gaelic and Scots language are languages of the United Kingdom.

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Scots Language Centre

The Scots Language Centre (Centre for the Scots Leid) is an organisation that promotes the use of the Scots language.

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Scottish devolution

Devolution is the process in which the central British parliament grants administrative powers (excluding principally reserved matters) to the devolved Scottish Parliament.

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Scottish English

Scottish English (Beurla Albannach) is the set of varieties of the English language spoken in Scotland. The transregional, standardised variety is called Scottish Standard English or Standard Scottish English (SSE). Scottish Standard English may be defined as "the characteristic speech of the professional class and the accepted norm in schools".

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Scottish Examination Board

The Scottish Examination Board (SEB), formerly known as the Scottish Certificate of Education Examination Board (SCEEB), was the academic examination board for Scottish schools from 1965 to 1997.

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Scottish Gaelic orthography

Scottish Gaelic orthography has evolved over many centuries and is heavily etymologizing in its modern form. Scottish Gaelic and Scottish Gaelic orthography are Scottish Gaelic language.

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Scottish Gaelic-medium education

Scottish Gaelic-medium education (FTG), also known as Gaelic-medium education (GME), is a form of education in Scotland that allows pupils to be taught primarily through the medium of Scottish Gaelic, with English being taught as the secondary language.

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Scottish Government

The Scottish Government (Riaghaltas na h-Alba) is the devolved government of Scotland.

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Scottish Human Rights Commission

The Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) (Coimisean Còraichean Daonna na h-Alba) is the national human rights institution for Scotland.

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Scottish Lowlands

The Lowlands (Lallans or Lawlands,; place of the foreigners) is a cultural and historical region of Scotland.

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Scottish Parliament

The Scottish Parliament (Pàrlamaid na h-Alba; Scots Pairlament) is the devolved, unicameral legislature of Scotland.

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Scottish people

The Scottish people or Scots (Scots fowk; Albannaich) are an ethnic group and nation native to Scotland.

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Scottish Qualifications Authority

The Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA; Gaelic: Ùghdarras Theisteanas na h-Alba) is the executive non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government responsible for accrediting educational awards.

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Scottish Television

Scottish Television (now, legally, known as STV Central Limited) is the ITV network franchisee for Central Scotland.

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Secretary of State for Scotland

The secretary of state for Scotland (Rùnaire Stàite na h-Alba; Secretar o State fir Scotland), also referred to as the Scottish secretary, is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, with responsibility for the Scotland Office.

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Silent letter

In an alphabetic writing system, a silent letter is a letter that, in a particular word, does not correspond to any sound in the word's pronunciation.

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Sky UK

Sky UK Limited, trading as Sky is a British broadcaster and telecommunications company that provides television, internet, fixed line and mobile telephone services to consumers and businesses in the United Kingdom.

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Sláinte

Sláinte means "health" in both Irish and Scottish Gaelic. Scottish Gaelic and Sláinte are Scottish Gaelic language.

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Sleat

Sleat is a peninsula and civil parish on the island of Skye in the Highland council area of Scotland, known as "the garden of Skye".

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Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge

The Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge, or the SSPCK, was a group established in Scotland to ensure the better understanding of the principles of the Christian religion, principally through the established Church of Scotland.

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Software testing

Software testing is the act of checking whether software satisfies expectations.

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Sorley MacLean

Sorley MacLean (Somhairle MacGill-Eain; 26 October 1911 – 24 November 1996) was a Scottish Gaelic poet, described by the Scottish Poetry Library as "one of the major Scottish poets of the modern era" because of his "mastery of his chosen medium and his engagement with the European poetic tradition and European politics".

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South Uist

South Uist (Uibhist a Deas,; Sooth Uist) is the second-largest island of the Outer Hebrides in Scotland.

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Spelling reform

A spelling reform is a deliberate, often authoritatively sanctioned or mandated change to spelling rules.

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Spoken language

A spoken language is a language produced by articulate sounds or (depending on one's definition) manual gestures, as opposed to a written language.

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St Columba Church of Scotland, Glasgow

St Columba's Church is a Church of Scotland Parish church that used to serve a Gaelic congregation in Glasgow until its closure in 2021. Scottish Gaelic and st Columba Church of Scotland, Glasgow are Scottish Gaelic language.

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St. Francis Xavier University

St.

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Statutes of Iona

The Statutes of Iona, passed in Scotland in 1609, required that Highland Scottish clan chiefs send their heirs to Lowland Scotland to be educated in English-speaking Protestant schools.

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Stornoway

Stornoway (Steòrnabhagh; Stornowa) is the main town, and by far the largest town, of the Outer Hebrides (or Western Isles), and the capital of Lewis and Harris in Scotland.

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Stress (linguistics)

In linguistics, and particularly phonology, stress or accent is the relative emphasis or prominence given to a certain syllable in a word or to a certain word in a phrase or sentence.

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Suffix

In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word.

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Sutherland

Sutherland (Cataibh) is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area in the Highlands of Scotland.

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Syncope (phonology)

In phonology, syncope (from συγκοπή||cutting up) is the loss of one or more sounds from the interior of a word, especially the loss of an unstressed vowel.

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TeleG

TeleG was established as the first daily digital Gaelic TV channel in Scotland on 31 October 1999, and was available on the Freeview platform until 23 May 2011.

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The Brus

The Brus, also known as The Bruce, is a long narrative poem, in Early Scots, of just under 14,000 octosyllabic lines composed by John Barbour which gives a historic and chivalric account of the actions of Robert the Bruce and Sir James Douglas in the Scottish Wars of Independence during a period from the circumstances leading up to the English invasion of 1296 through to Scotland's restored position in the years between the Treaty of 1328 and the death of Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray in 1332.

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The Gaelic College

The Gaelic College (Colaisde na Gàidhlig), formally The Royal Cape Breton Gaelic College (Colaisde Rìoghail na Gàidhlig), is a non-profit educational institution located in the community of St. Anns, Nova Scotia, on Cape Breton Island, along the Cabot Trail.

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The Maritimes

The Maritimes, also called the Maritime provinces, is a region of Eastern Canada consisting of three provinces: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.

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The Wallace (poem)

The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace (Modern), also known as The Wallace, is a long "romantic biographical" poem by the fifteenth-century Scottish makar of the name Blind Harry, probably at some time in the decade before 1488.

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Tiree

Tiree (Tiriodh) is the most westerly island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.

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Trill consonant

In phonetics, a trill is a consonantal sound produced by vibrations between the active articulator and passive articulator.

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Triphthong

In phonetics, a triphthong (from Greek) is a monosyllabic vowel combination involving a quick but smooth movement of the articulator from one vowel quality to another that passes over a third.

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Trousers

Trousers (British English), slacks, or pants (American and Canadian English) are an item of clothing worn from the waist to anywhere between the knees and the ankles, covering both legs separately (rather than with cloth extending across both legs as in robes, skirts, dresses and kilts).

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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Unicode

Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard, is a text encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

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Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is an international document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly that enshrines the rights and freedoms of all human beings.

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University of Aberdeen

The University of Aberdeen (abbreviated Aberd. in post-nominals; Oilthigh Obar Dheathain) is a public research university in Aberdeen, Scotland.

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University of the Highlands and Islands

The University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) (Oilthigh na Gàidhealtachd agus nan Eilean) is an integrated, tertiary institution encompassing both further and higher education.

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Vancouver

Vancouver is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.

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Velarization

Velarization or velarisation is a secondary articulation of consonants by which the back of the tongue is raised toward the velum during the articulation of the consonant.

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Verb–subject–object word order

In linguistic typology, a verb–subject–object (VSO) language has its most typical sentences arrange their elements in that order, as in Ate Sam oranges (Sam ate oranges). Scottish Gaelic and verb–subject–object word order are verb–subject–object languages.

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Virgin Media

Virgin Media is a telecommunications company from Britain, founded in 2007, which provides telephone, television and internet services in the United Kingdom.

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Vocative case

In grammar, the vocative case (abbreviated) is a grammatical case which is used for a noun that identifies a person (animal, object, etc.) being addressed or occasionally for the noun modifiers (determiners, adjectives, participles, and numerals) of that noun.

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Voice (grammar)

In grammar, the voice (aka diathesis) of a verb describes the relationship between the action (or state) that the verb expresses and the participants identified by its arguments (subject, object, etc.). When the subject is the agent or doer of the action, the verb is in the active voice.

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Vowel

A vowel is a syllabic speech sound pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract.

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Vowel length

In linguistics, vowel length is the perceived length of a vowel sound: the corresponding physical measurement is duration.

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Vowel reduction

In phonetics, vowel reduction is any of various changes in the acoustic quality of vowels as a result of changes in stress, sonority, duration, loudness, articulation, or position in the word (e.g. for the Creek language), and which are perceived as "weakening".

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Wars of Scottish Independence

The Wars of Scottish Independence were a series of military campaigns fought between the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England in the late 13th and early 14th centuries.

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Welsh language

Welsh (Cymraeg or y Gymraeg) is a Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people. Scottish Gaelic and Welsh language are Fusional languages, languages of the United Kingdom and verb–subject–object languages.

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West Lothian

West Lothian (Wast Lowden; Lodainn an Iar) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, and was one of its historic counties.

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Wester Ross

Wester Ross is an area of the Northwest Highlands of Scotland in the council area of Highland.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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Writing system

A writing system comprises a particular set of symbols, called a script, as well as the rules by which the script represents a particular language.

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1911 United Kingdom census

The United Kingdom Census 1911 of 2 April 1911 was the 12th nationwide census conducted in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

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1921 United Kingdom census

The United Kingdom Census 1921 was a census of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland that was carried out on 19 June 1921.

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2011 United Kingdom census

A census of the population of the United Kingdom is taken every ten years.

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2016 Canadian census

The 2016 Canadian census was an enumeration of Canadian residents, which counted a population of 35,151,728, a change from its 2011 population of 33,476,688.

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2021 Canadian census

The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021.

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2021 United Kingdom census

The 2021 United Kingdom census is the 23rd official census of the United Kingdom.

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See also

Endangered Celtic languages

Fusional languages

Languages of Canada

Languages of the United Kingdom

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic

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