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Preferred term

glaGaelic  

Type

  • language

Definition

  • Canadian Gaelic or Cape Breton Gaelic , locally just Gaelic or The Gaelic, refers to the dialects of Scottish Gaelic that have been spoken continuously for more than 200 years on Cape Breton Island and in isolated enclaves on the Nova Scotia mainland. To a lesser extent the language is also spoken on nearby Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Glengarry County in present-day Ontario and by emigrant Gaels living in major Canadian cities such as Toronto. At its peak in the mid-19th century, Gaelic, considered together with the closely related Irish language, was the third most spoken language in Canada after English and French. The language has sharply declined since that period, however, and is now nearly extinct. Recently, efforts have been made to revitalise the language.

Entry terms

  • Canadian Gaelic
  • Gaelic, Scottish
  • Scottish Gaelic

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • gla

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • gla

ISO 639-1 code

  • gd

ISO 639-3 code

  • gla

In other languages

  • Skotse Gallies

    Afrikaans

  • Galisht

    Albanian

  • እስኮትስ ጌልክኛ

    Amharic

  • الغيلية الأسكتلندية

    Arabic

  • Գաելյան Շոտլանդերեն

    Armenian

  • skot gaelik dili

    Azerbaijani

  • স্কটস-গ্যেলিক

    Bangla

  • eskoziako gaelikoa

    Basque

  • шатландская гэльская

    Belarusian

  • እስኮትስ ጌልክኛ

    Blin

  • स्कॉट्स् गैलिक्

    Bodo

  • škotski galski

    Bosnian

  • skoseg

    Breton

  • шотландски галски

    Bulgarian

  • gaèlic escocès

    Catalan

  • 加拿大苏格兰盖尔语

    Chinese

  • škotski-galski

    Croatian

  • skotská gaelština

    Czech

  • skotsk gælisk

    Danish

  • Schots Gaelic

    Dutch

  • gaela

    Esperanto

  • gaeli

    Estonian

  • skɔtlanɖ gaeliagbe

    Ewe

  • skotskt gæliskt

    Faroese

  • Scots Gaelic

    Filipino

  • Finnish

  • Kanadangaeli
  • gaélique

    French

  • Gaélique canadien
  • gaélique écossais
  • gaelic scozês

    Friulian

  • gaélico escocés

    Galician

  • შოტლანდიურ-გალური

    Georgian

  • Schottisches Gälisch

    German

  • Kanadisch-Gälische Sprache
  • Σκωτικά Κελτικά

    Greek

  • સ્કોટ્સ ગેલિક

    Gujarati

  • K'abilan Scots Gaelic

    Hausa

  • גאלית סקוטית

    Hebrew

  • स्काट्स् गायेलिक्

    Hindi

  • skót gael

    Hungarian

  • skosk gelíska

    Icelandic

  • Gaelik Skotlandia

    Indonesian

  • scoto gaelic

    Interlingua

  • Gaeilge Cheanada

    Irish

  • Gaeilge na hAlban
  • gaelico scozzese

    Italian

  • Lingua gaelica canadese
  • スコットランド・ゲール語

    Japanese

  • ಸ್ಕಾಟಿಶ್ ಗ್ಯಾಲಿಕ್

    Kannada

  • سکوٹِش گیےلِک

    Kashmiri

  • Солтүстік Шотландия

    Kazakh

  • ភាសាហ្កែលិគ [gd]

    Khmer

  • Ikigaluwa cy'Igisweduwa

    Kinyarwanda

  • 스코틀랜드 게일어

    Korean

  • ສະກັອດເກລິກ

    Lao

  • gēlu

    Latvian

  • škotų (gėlų)

    Lithuanian

  • шкотско галски

    Macedonian

  • സ്കോട്ടിഷ് ഗൈലിക്

    Malayalam

  • Galliku Skoċċiż

    Maltese

  • Gaelg Chanadagh

    Manx

  • स्कॉट्स गेलिक

    Marathi

  • स्कट्स गाएलिक

    Nepali

  • Kanadisk gælisk

    Norwegian

  • skotsk gælisk

    Norwegian Bokmål

  • skotsk-gælisk

    Norwegian Nynorsk

  • ସ୍କଟିସ୍ ଗାଏଲିକ୍

    Odia

  • Scots Gaelic

    Oromo

  • سکاټلېنډي ګېلک

    Pashto

  • گیلی اسکاتلندی

    Persian

  • szkocki gaelicki

    Polish

  • gaélico escocês

    Portuguese

  • gaelică scoțiană

    Romanian

  • gaelic scot

    Romansh

  • гэльский

    Russian

  • Gàidhlig

    Scottish Gaelic

  • Шкотски Галски

    Serbian

  • škótska gaelčina

    Slovak

  • škotska gelščina

    Slovenian

  • Iskot Giilik

    Somali

  • Se-scots gaelic

    Southern Sotho

  • gaélico escocés

    Spanish

  • Swedish

  • Kanadensisk gäliska
  • Schottisch-Gäälisch

    Swiss German

  • Шотландӣ-Галикӣ

    Tajik

  • ஸ்காட்ஸ் கேலிக்

    Tamil

  • స్కాటిష్ గేలిక్

    Telugu

  • สกอตส์กาลิก

    Thai

  • እስኮትስ ጌልክኛ

    Tigre

  • እስኮትስ ጌልክኛ

    Tigrinya

  • lea fakakaeliki

    Tongan

  • Scots Gaelic

    Tswana

  • İskoç Gal Dili

    Turkish

  • гаельська

    Ukrainian

  • سکاٹ گیلِک

    Urdu

  • Tiếng Xentơ (Xcốt len)

    Vietnamese

  • Gaeleg yr Alban

    Welsh

  • Scots Gaelic

    Xhosa

  • Èdè Gaelik ti Ilu Scotland

    Yoruba

  • i-Scottish Gaelic

    Zulu

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/gla

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