in this video we're going to look at
some of the similarities
and differences between irish and
scottish gaelic
both of these languages come from the
gaelic family of languages
and in actual fact scottish gaelic
originates from an earlier form of irish
that spread from the island of ireland
into scotland
from around the year 500 a.d
gradually over time the irish that was
spoken in scotland
became more distinct from the mother
tongue and ultimately
this became known as scottish gaelic
now i should point out that i am no
expert on scottish gaelic
and i'd like to apologize in advance if
some of my pronunciations in this video
are not quite up to scratch irish and
scottish gaelic do have lots in common
in many ways they look and sound
remarkably similar
but there are plenty of subtle
differences too and one of the first
differences of this kind that you'll
notice
is the construction of the fada in irish
the father points to the right
are the northeast in scottish gaelic it
points to the left
or the northwest an example can be seen
in the irish word for yesterday which is
ign you can see the direction of the
thought there pointing right
in scottish gaelic it's anje anje
and that father as you can see points
the other way
the irish for shu is brogue and it's the
same as scottish gaelic
brogue um almost the same words uh the
only difference there being
the father let's look at some more irish
words and compare them
to their scottish gaelic equivalent the
irish for water is
ishka ishke and in scottish gaelic
it looks very similar ishke ishke
so both look quite similar there as you
can see
in irish gamma is good
and in scottish gaelic
the irish for insects is fed
and one of the scottish gaelic words for
insects is
beeshtagen bishtagen this reminds me of
the word
beasties which is a scots word for
insects
beasties now when i say scots i mean the
english dialect of scots
that's spoken in scotland and that word
beasties
is quite similar to the scottish gaelic
word beeshtagan
and it's possible that there's a
connection it's possible that
um bishken could be a loanword from
scott's who knows
let's look at this phrase here this
means how are you
so in scottish gaelic kimmer ahau
kimmer ahau how are you
one way in irish to say that would be
murtatu maratatu
this particular way of saying that in
irish kaje marathatu
is more widely used in the ulster
dialect of irish the northern dialect
which brings me nicely onto my next
point and that is that
speakers of the ulster dialect of irish
are probably going to have a greater
understanding of scottish gaelic
than the speakers of the connect and
monster dialects
further south this is because ulster
irish
is closer to scottish gaelic due to the
geographical proximities
of the people and the land some people
even go as far to say that
ulster irish is a bridge between modern
irish
and scottish gaelic so how are you
scottish gaelic kimmer ahau
in irish kaje marathatu and i would
probably say
kono satatu as a way of saying how are
you
tatu let's look at an answer
to the question how are you in scottish
gaelic
that means i am good or i am fine
in irish ta megama tame
so again they look very very similar as
you can see
if you wanted to say i am very good or i
am
doing fantastic in scottish gaelic you
could say this
hami glaiva hami
gleiva so the word glader is
interesting i haven't seen that used
very much in irish it is a word it is
it is there it's in the dictionary in
irish glay means
bright or vivid so it's interesting that
it's used in scottish gaelic in this
context to say
i am very good or i am fantastic
if you would like to learn more about
irish and scottish gaelic
then why not have a look at this
instagram account
i came across recently guelga
agus garlic learn irish and scottish
gaelic
this is a fantastic resource run by a
wonderful lady called cara
and she has lots of great posts
comparing irish words with scottish
gaelic words really interesting i'll
leave a link in the description
and in the first pin comment if you
would like to check out her instagram
page
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