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mali-umkin · 2 days

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Irish, Welsh and Scottish Gaelic speakers, I need your help! 🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

For a piece of academic writing I am working on right now, I was wondering if in the context of those three languages, you have positive or negative examples of:

1) The presence of non-standard dialects digitally or in the media (any content creator you know, any regular speakers on the radio that actively uses a non-standard dialect, or on the contrary, you only encounter standard Irish/Welsh/Gaelic. If you have any example of non-standard writing too, for example in the printed press, I am all ears)

2) Do you speak and/or write a non-standard dialect and have been looked down upon for it by other speakers? If yes what dialect and in what context

3) What do you think about purification practices in which loan-words from English are replaced by new words? Which words do you use? If you study the language formally, which are taught to you?

Thank you, and please reblog!

- A grateful Celtic student

#Irish #Gaelic #Scottish Gaelic #Welsh #gaeilge #cymraeg #Gàidhlig #Ireland #Scotland #Wales #Celtic languages #Minroty languages #Linguistics #Standardisation #Celtic #Celtic studies #Languages #Alba #Mostly for native speakers but also non-native fluent speakers that regularly interact with the language

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scims-stuff · 8 months

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I think it’s just kinda ironic that Hozier released a song dedicated to the destruction of native culture and language, and most of you seem to be allergic to referring to the Irish language as Irish.

Gaelic is an umbrella term that describes many languages, mainly Irish, Welsh, and Scots Gaelic. Gaelic is not an actual language (or at least not anymore). All three are distinct languages with their own spellings and grammar. In the De Selby bts video Hozier himself refers to it as Irish.

You would not refer to Spanish as romantic when it could also mean French and Italian. Show some respect.

#hozier #unreal unearth #de selby #irish #gaelic

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wordsmithic · 5 months

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I don't like this for so many reasons. Anglophone (usually USAmerican) writers often take foreign words and misrepresent them in their books, misinforming a whole new wave of readers in the process. They regularly do this with Greek as well. These languages haven't resisted assimilation and suppression so they can be used as USAmerican accessories in 2023.

#writing #books #cultures #fourth wing #gaelic #Scottish Gaelic #writer #writeblr #tiktok

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ceilidhtransing · 3 months

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Gàidhlig vs Gaeilge

The languages Scots Gaelic* (Gàidhlig) and Irish Gaelic (Gaeilge, also known in English as simply “Irish”) are two separate languages, yet in English they are often both called Gaelic.

However, they are pronounced completely differently.

Gaelic (Scottish) rhymes with Alec

Gaelic (Irish) sounds like Gay-lick

As a fun fact, it's easy to tell apart Scots Gaelic and Irish Gaelic visually because in Gàidhlig 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 all the accents are grave - “welcome to Scotland”, which you'll see driving over the border, is “fàilte gu Alba” - while in Gaeilge 🇮🇪 all the accents are acute - “welcome to Ireland” is “fáilte go hÉirinn”.

This has been a very friendly PSA from a Scot who has heard Scots Gaelic mispronounced as “Gaylick” too many times - and now you can go on your merry linguistic way confident in your pronunciation of these two words which look identical but sound totally different and refer to two separate things.

*not to be at all confused with the Scots language, which is its own separate thing and very much not included under “Gaelic”

#langblr #languages #learning languages #language learning #linguistics #gaelic #scots gaelic #gàidhlig #irish language #irish gaelic #gaeilge #my posts

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wtfduolingo · 1 month

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Oh yeah, happens all the time…

[Image transcription: Scottish Gaelic which translates to “The office is not suitable. There are deer in it”]

#duolingo #gaelic #THANK U for iding

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stargazer-writing · 8 months

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Been listening to "Unreal Unearth" for the past two days and I just wanted to say I find something very hauntingly beautiful about how this album, being about the juxtaposition of humanity and sin and analyzing the different ways these sins can be committed -- and sometimes the hypocrisy of them -- features so many references to Gaeilge erasure and the preservation of Irish culture before British invasion and subsequent Christian influence.

#hozier #unreal unearth #music #gaelic #gaeilge

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nibmoss · 5 days

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did you hear there’s a new short film that is GAY?? LESBIAN, even???

AND it’s filmed in a minority language?? a CELTIC language, one might say??

AND that it’s available for FREE, with SUBTITLES in both irish AND english??

“FAN” (2024) dir. by cúnla ní bhraonáin morris

watch here 🫶

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geekysteven · 1 year

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[Image description Tweet from HJosephineGiles "The wonderful thing about learning Gaelic is that you start to truly understand the deep, sacred knowledge that's carried in the true names of Scotland's places. Grey hill. Big hill. Big grey hill."]

Source

#gaelic #Scotland #language

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thegoldenshi-shi · 1 year

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Siúil a Rún

Siúil, siúil, siúil a rún Siúil go sochair agus siúil go ciúin Siúil go doras agus éalaigh liom Is go dté tú mo mhúirnín slán

Go, go, go my love Go steadily and go softly Go to the door and away we’ll flee And then safe may my darling be

(siúil is a strong word for “go” kind of like “Walk!” or “Come!” and a rún is an endearment.)

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llyfrenfys · 4 months

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I'm making my opposition to the proposal to severely reduce language provision at the University of Aberdeen known - Scottish Gaelic, an endangered Celtic langauge, is one of the languages at risk of being cut. This would do immense damage to the language revitalisation effort. @uniofaberdeen must reverse this decision and commit to protecting Gaelic and other languages in their institution.

If you feel the same way, you're encouraged to make more posts and stories about the issue to show the University of Aberdeen just how much this decision is frowned upon. Use the hashtag #saveuoalanguages in your posts to get the word out about this.

I'll be travelling tomorrow and wish I could do more right now. But together we can make it known just how unpopular this decision is.

#university of Aberdeen #saveuoalanguages #scottish gaelic #gaidhlig #endangered languages #celtic languages #celtic #gaelic #scotland #scottish #language revitalization #cymblr #celtic studies

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do-you-speak-this-language · 5 months

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*also known as Irish Gaelic, Gaelic, Gaeilge

note: this is a remake of a now-privated older poll.

reblogs are encouraged :-) please be respectful when commenting!

#poll #linguistics #irish #irish gaelic #gaelic #gaeilge

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itsapmseymour · 1 year

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más féidir leat é seo a léamh, tá tú iontach

#Gaelic

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blatterpussbunnyfromhell · 8 months

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Making a separate post because it bothers me but "gaelic" is not the name of "the scottish language", it's an umbrella term for the celtic languages of Gaeilge (Irish gaelic) and Gàidhlig, the scottish gaelic, not language.

(Not be confused with the brythonic branches of celtic languages such as Welsh, Brezhoneg, or Cornish.)

#languages #gaeilge #gaidhlig #celtic languages #gaelic #linguistics #yes this is about the hozier garlic post #butchered tongue #minority languages #indigenous languages #celtic nations

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cunla · 3 months

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fan | stay (2024)

dir. cúnla ní bhraonáin morris

i directed and wrote “fan”, a short film in irish which is about a woman who keeps going on bad dates with men, and her best friend whose advice is to date women instead. we are now in post-production so watch this space!

#short film #fan #stay #directing #writing #my film #my writing #my script #bilingual #irish #gaeilge #gaelic #film #scannán #gearrscannán #fan scannán

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inthefaceofadaffodil · 9 months

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ngl I was considering reading Fourth Wing but after seeing a tiktok by a Gaelic speaker saying that the author throws in random Scottish Gaelic for the names of things because it sounds “fantasy-esque” presumably without consulting anyone who actually speaks the language so some of it doesn’t actually make any sense and the audiobook butchers the pronunciation has put me right off. Anyways here’s her caption because quite frankly some of you need to read it.

#Fourth Wing #Scotland #Scottish Gaelic #Gaelic #this was super disappointing #because the book sounds really good but alas 😒#anyways THIS is why I refuse to read books involving anything Scottish that are written by Americans #I don’t even speak the language and this drives me nuts!

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ceo-draiochta · 10 months

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While individual letters are straight forward to pronounce in irish, I find that two vowels together can still sometimes trip me up. I've made a non exhaustive list of the vowel combos. Please note that pronunciation is dependent on dialect.

They are each listed as (irish letters)-(english pronunciation)-(example word)

If there's any mistakes please let me know too.

#gaeilge #irish #langblr #gaelic #ireland #mine

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