I think some people are too hard on Kevin here. The whole point of the video is that the historical footprint of Gaelic was different from what many people imagine, and I think he adequately illustrated the issues with trying to draw clean linguistic borders in history when language was so often stratified or associated with certain groups. I think there is a lot that could have been said around religious conflict and the connection between the decline of Gaelic and the decline of Catholicism as well as the relationship between Gaelic culture and the large landowning monastic institutions which were destroyed in the Reformation. I think it would be good to have a similar video on the legacy of the Northumbrians in southern Scotland as well as the complex mix of Germanic elements that went into Scots (good to see mention of the Frisian burghers, who often go unmentioned in pop histories). It helps that he respects his audience's knowledge and intelligence level to not feel like he has to explain basic concepts and instead can move on toward a more nuanced discussion. However I respect that he has a primarily Celtic-focused channel. A good followup might be a video on Celtic Christianity as I feel like he might clear some of the basic hurdles (e.g. talking about the Brigid vs. St. Brigid stuff as if it is a revelation) and actually have something worthwhile to say.

Great video. By the way, Islay is pronounced
'Eye-lah', no ìle anns a' Ghàidhlig!

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Tapadh leat! Stair intinneach e!

Excellent presentation.

And I agree too that forms of Q-Celtic have been spoken in western parts of Scotland, for much longer than realised. Particularly in the Roman era, but its highly likely, forms of Q-Celtic were spoken in Western Scotland even before the Roman era.

Gaelic is very much is a native language of Scotland.

However buried within the Gaelic language of Scotland are traces of the Caledonian (Pictish) and Brythonic (Cumbric) languages.

I'm learning Gaelic on Duolingo now 😊

Great presentation, since you mentioned the Scottish communities in Canada that were very strong in Nova Scotia, I'll point out that the Irish speaking communities were very strong in Newfoundland (which I think they called Tir na Iasc).  Too bad they didn't band together to make their own Gael version of Quebec.

One really cool difference between Europe and America as seen from above is the way land was originally partitioned in each. European land boundaries are incredibly irregular probably ending at obvious terrain features.

A neighbors’ agreement could’ve been made by handshake to suggest that “my land ends at the big spur on the little mountain.” These arrangements may have shaped the development of land there for at least a thousand years and probably more

’S e duine òg à Glaschu a th’ annam, agus bu chòir dhuinn barrachd a dhèanamh gus a’ chànan a bhrosnachadh. Tha i brèagha — cànan nan seann daoine agus ar dualchais. Ged a tha mo Ghàidhlig caran neo-choileanta, tha mi a’ feuchainn. Nuair a bha mi òg, bha mo sgrìobhadh na b’ fheàrr. Bha barrachd Gàidhlig agam an uair sin. and i grew up in it, just very difficult as rarely get a chance to use our Gaidhlig

Awesome presentation friend. 👍

Galloway translated into English means - Stranger's province.

You have truly nailed this subject. Thank you for creating this. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

gaoth means wind in irish as well as gaidhlig and in old irish

There's always a bitter-sweet aura around Celtic and Gael history consisting of mysticism, heroism and tragic defeat by more technological advanced and more aggressive peoples. One you know so well how to get across.
Living in a land with previously many dialects, most of which now are on the verge of extinction, I feel a similar sadness that certain words die along the wonderful people for whom they were commonplace.  History and being grounded in soil and tradition seems something that is of little if any value. And as a poet of my country (Lucebert) famously wrote: 'Everything of value is defenceless." Though that pointed to the bombardment of Rotterdam in 1940, forcing the Netherlands to surrender, I feel those words relate to the loss of linguistic richness as well. Sometimes what's called progress in fact is little more than carelessness. Too bad.

I grew up on Mull and there is some Gaelic there, not very widespread but becoming more popular after I left. It’s still written on road signs everywhere highlands and some ferries will make announcements in English, followed by Gaelic.
I think the main use for many people is slang, words that have just blended into English that most Scot’s say casually, I know my Dad remembers the swears but never uses them, if he wants to swear at English folk, he wants them to know he’s swearing.

Thank you for your videos and all the work that goes into making them. Beautiful and interesting.

thankyou. fantastic stuff

Father side is Norse-Gael
Mom side was Galloway.

Middle name is Gael (Gale)

I remember my grandpa speaking Irish aa a kid. This is on a peanut fa in Georgia around 2000.

His name was PaPa Gael. About half the words were old English though. Idk his dialect, but I think it shows English influence on Gaelic.

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I’m Scottish with haplogroup G-M201