Gaelic Language attack

[Graham A. Robieson]

Greetings,

The Question of the "Native Language" the true language of which is often referred to as something simular to Welsh, the language of the Gaels is in part between Scotland and Ireland, cause in the days of William Wallace, Ireland/Ulster was referred to as "Scotia Major" and Scotland as "Scotia Minor" the history of our language is to refer to the language spoken by the "Picts" as they were named by the "Romans"...the fusion between Irish Gaelic and Pictish has made Scots Gaelic what it is today, Scotland has always had more than one Language, e.g. Lowlanders spoke what is referred to as "Scots" the Highlanders spoke "Gaelic" and Orkney/Shetland isles spoke a language closer to "Norse" for centuries Scotland has been awash with different languages and now "English" is generally spoken by Scots, however "Scots Language" is not taught in schools and even though it is not taught, it is still spoken across the lowlands, Highlanders speak both Gaelic and English, to say that Gaelic is a dead language is not correct...the act of union in 1707 meant that "Scots Language" was not to be used in the educational system and that "English" was to take presendence in Scottish Schools, even when my dad was at school, if he spoke "Scots" he was punished, and when I used bits from my dads broken terms, I was corrected with the proper "English" in my vocabulary. "Gaelic" will not disappear and as is with "Scots" even when they tried to remove it from the peoples eye, Robert Burns is one who wrote his poems in "Scots" and with that has kept "Scots" going, even when it is still not taught in schools today.

Scotland is many things and one thing for me is that, Scots will never be short of languages and we will have more in order to communicate to people all over the world, ay' scots is here to stay, and even if not taught in schools, it is still spoken at home, Gaelic was spoken by my family centuries ago, but not now, Scots was spoken by my family until recently, of which there are a few bits and pieces still spoken at home, I got books on "Scots" and "Gaelic" and of which I read not all the way through but it was interesting to learn, some of the ancient language spoken by my ancestors.

Thank-you for your time,


All the best,


Graham


'S mise Graham...Ciamar a tha sibh?...Tha mi airson Gàidhlig ionnsachadh...A bheil Gàidhlig agaibh?