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Name:
Gaelic, Scottish
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Gaelic (Scots); Scottish Gaelic; Scotch-Gaelic; Gàidhlig; Gaelic; Scots Gaelic; Albannach Gaidhlig; Erse; Gadhelisch; “Erse”
Spoken in:
USA, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom
Number of speakers:
58,700 in United Kingdom (2003 census). Population total all countries: 66,780
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
58552
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
62175
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
gla
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Language:
Old Irish; Gadhelisch; altirische (sga)
Child Dialects:
Church Gaelic (gla-chu)
East Sutherlandshire (gla-eas)
Galwegian Gaelic; Gallovidian Gaelic; Gallowegian Gaelic; Galloway Gaelic (gla-gal)
UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Map of Gaelic, Scottish
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