The war of friends destroyed many things, and unfortunately the Gaelic was one of them. Pro-Anglo elites imposed a horrific spelling reform and an intentionally destructive education system to try to kill of the language in public spaces, and they've more or less been successful. Pride for the language has been at an all time low, and it's up to our generation to try to save the language before its lost. Conchobhar is ainm dom, leis, agus gaiscígh na teanga is ea sinne. 💪 Bail ó Dhia ort. ✝

Bail ó Dhia oraibh. Chuaigh mo thriúr iníonacha go dtí an Mhodhscoil, tá duine acú án í gconaí. Is scoil mhaith í, cé go bhfuil an teannga beagan níos laige intí le cupla blíain anuas.

I often wondered and thought the same as you Conor. Linguistic vandalism on our beautiful script. It can be brought back.

@@andrewfahy9153 Ní cheapfainn go dtabharfar ar ais and sean bealach litriú arís. Caithfidh muid úsáid a bhaint as an bealach nua chomh maith is feidir linn.

Beidir Michael, ach is feidir linn an sean bealach litriu a dtabharfar ar ais. Beidir go mbeidh an suim leis na ndaoine oige. Nil an teanga in ait ro laidir anois, ach leis na ndaoine oige, beidir go mbeidh an sceal nios fearr san t-am seo chugainn. @@michealbreathnach2928

Its a beautiful language!

Duolingo has Gaidhlig. Both Gaidhlig and Irish Gaelic have lots of resources online. If you are in the UK there are so many places to learn.

I have found Rosetta Stone to be the best app for learning languages.

Just do it!

Cape Breton has a school. Canada

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Neo Irish seems to be the norm nowadays. Even 25 years ago, I did hear mostly English phonology whenever listening to Irish speakers. Even in the Gaeltacht, the areas of Gaoth Dobhair, Cois Fharraige and An Daingean, I vividly remember those few old people that still spoke a distinctive kind of Irish. The conservative dialects will not survive the havoc caused by An Caighdeán Oifigiúil as taught by teachers with English as their mother tongue. Perhaps confined already to a small group of passionate linguists as we speak...

Considering that most Irish speakers have English as their native language, it is probably fair to say that most Irish speakers do not pronounce R with either a trill or a tap. While tapped and trilled Rs certainly do exist in spoken Irish, I find it is very much a feature of Gaeltacht Irish. As a native Irish speaker from Dublin born to non-native speakers, I rarely, if ever, tap or roll my Rs. As the influence of Irish speakers from non-Gaeltacht areas increases, tapped and trilled Rs as a standard feature of spoken Irish will decline.

​@@Hadraedan96I'm not a speaker but I can tell on the radio they are effectively using their Irish accent English to speak gaelic which makes no sense. Listening to native gaelic speakers from the Hebrides it doesn't sound like Scottish English.

​@@Hadraedan96 How are you a native speaker if your parents aren't? They learned it as a second language and raised you with it I guess?

You got a lot of comments on this distinction between r' s. May I add that in ancient Hebrew there were two R s, a trilled double (if letter has a inner dot as reading sign) and a basic R. Some Israelis know which R words to trill, but most do not, as it was not figured out by the revival of modern Hebrew, thus not taught . You showed me that other ancient lanquages went thru a similar process, as your Irish speakers point out in comments to you.👍 Good day 😇

Nuair a labhraíonn tú nádúr labhraíonn tú an fhírinne.

English must be a second language for you. Correct English is “made me learn Gallic.” And “learned.”

@@OakwiseBecoming although in old English, she is correct and in proper British English it is 'learnt' not 'learned'.

Your English is not great though. Time would have been better spent improving that.

@@johnc3403 this is a reply to millar6070? It is a curious sentence construction, which I assumed meant that English was a 2nd or 3rd language. Now I wonder if it was just affectation.

I was thinking the same thing 👍

I read somewhere the two were amongst the earliest langages to split in the Indo-European family.

​@@paulohagan3309the earliest split was probably the Centum-Satem split

My grandmother’s language was Gaelic (1882) until she learned English much later in life after moving to America with her husband & children. I noticed there was some minor similarity to Latin & or Spanish words from getting the old newspaper “Ireland’s Own” & hearing her speak. She raised me alone, her grandchild, so I spent most of my time with her. I wondered about if there was some ancient connection. When she got very old, she forgot English & none of us could no longer communicate. It was very sad.

Coz of Slavic origin..

That's very interesting.

They are all connected true common Slavic origin... You can trace it true the root's of the words.

Proto-Celtic and Proto-Italic are the closest siblings of the descended PIE languages, even Caesar during his conquest of Gaul remarked at how similar Gaulish and Latin were in sound

​@@BaileyJPope Could the similarity between Celtic and Latin be a reason why the Celtic languages were so thoroughly replaced by Latin, while more distinct languages, such as Basque and Albanian, remained?

@FaithfulOfBrigantia Possibly in Gaul, where the spoken Language was close to the roots. Briton, Cornish, Welsh and Irish had gone so far to be almost unrelatable with Romance languages. It is instead possible that the old Gaulic language pronunciation was at the base of how modern French sounds compared to the written version Also, because the Franks the Burgudians and the Visgoths were old german speakers, Latin would work as a lingua franca and they would take over the local pronunciation, rather then the classical one.

@@Leptospirosi The Insular Celtic languages had gone that far off because they first made their appearence in writing during the high middle ages. Back in the pre-Roman Iron Age, Goidelic, Gallaecian and Celtiberian would be the most archaic and thus closest to Proto-Italo-Celtic, Brythonic would have had large similarities with Gaulish due to second introduction of Celtic in the Islands from Gaul having been only a couple centuries prior. And if Gaulish is similar to Latin, by association so would Brythonic.

​@@FaithfulOfBrigantiayes

Off topic, but your username is pure meme gold. That is all.

"Alba gu brath" is actually pronounced "Aliba gu bra" (nowadays anyway). In Scottish Gaelic the "th" is silent and there is a slight separation between the "L" and "B" in "Alba".

Another weird detail: The word bràth means 'judgment', while brath (short vowel) means 'betrayal'. So it could variously mean 'Scotland until (the day of) judgment' and 'Scotland until betrayal'.

Earliest settlers were not Indo-European. DYOR

@@ukpatcopatcouk9748 Let me guess. Were they a master race of divine solar beings from Hyperborea?

@@LobertERee In this case, t's definitely gu bràth (forever) which used to mean 'to the judgement day'.

Ps. My grandad was bilingual but after years living in England he complained about the Gaelic on Radio Eirean. My (know it all but nice) mum reckoned it was because he had forgotten his Gaelic. But he came from Mayo aged 14 in 1895 ish so maybe the pronunciation by the 1950s Dublin based radio presenters was what had changed.

British establishment looted, committed genocide I'm Ireland for centuries and banned Irish language often, and terrible torture, misunderstanding if an Irish person heard speaking Irish. This is tragic because it wired out the language gradually over the whole if Ireland and iften the native speakers felting feel ashamed of their 'rubbish' language. As a child I asked my Irish mother how to cou t to 10 in Irish - she told me but shrugged off the language as silky or suchlike. Very sad but British did this worldwide ie treated tge people worse than vermin in order to steal the land and anything valuable the coun try possessed. The 'Irish Famine' was a genocide idea by the British who had reduced most Irish to paupers by tge 19th century while the English lived lije King's on the best land and stole crops, cattle, people for slavery and more. During the 'Famine' the British stole many tons of quality food and shipped it to England or used it themselves while millions of Irish starved to death including whole families found on in their homes if they had one in the countryside. The Irish language is still beautiful of course eg 'Hello' translates as 'Dia duit' meaning 'God be with you' with one possible reply being 'God and Mary with you' etc. The language is respectful etc. I would love to speak Irish fluently:)

'misunderstanding" is a typo due to predictive text and should be 'murder'

@@helenamcginty4920 I was born in the eighties in north Donegal, in Irish classes we were using books from 20-30 years prior, and the teachers wouldn't use the latest 'national' print for schools printed in Dublin, and if we did use them, spelling and pronunciation 'mistakes' were corrected along the way for the next person. With something like' Ah the paleans don't know better' lol

@@neveo9428 The same thing happened in Cornwall and is happening in France with Breton.

Hollywood intelligence :(

Oddly enough irish language was before English

That's awesome. Wish we had Old Irish where I live. Is Old Irish grammar highly inflected? Slán. Hwyl👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@@gandolfthorstefn1780 There's a lot of lenition, aspiration, nasalisation etc, that sorta thing. Double vowels, mutations and so as well. Might sound basic to some, I'm not the greatest when it comes to linguistic terms so you'll have to bear with me.

@@feasogachsionnach1872 Thanks for the feedback. It sounds even more complicated than Modern Irish. It seems the more ancient the more complicated and a movement towards simplification as a language evolves. As we say in Welsh, 'pob lwc a phob dymuniad da' , good luck and all the best learning Old Irish. 👍☘️Slán.

@@gandolfthorstefn1780 Nae bother. It's complicated enough but you can notice similarities if you've an understanding of modern Irish.

@@feasogachsionnach1872 Modern Irish is on my short language list to learn. I have the materials and am tempted to start but I'm learning Welsh at the moment. Target: Welsh,Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Breton. Hope I live long enough. The Old Irish resembles Welsh with the dh sound and the th. Mod. Irish sounds smooth whereas Welsh sounds more consonantal. You really use every muscle of your mouth with Welsh.

It's not really. It's just taught so poorly. I had one good teacher throughout school, and everyday he gave us a topic to write a postcard letter to someone, and it stuck in my head.

@@barryb90 They said Old Irish, not modern Irish

@@crimthann-fathach my mistake

You should try Chinese.

​@@ferretyluvInfinitely simpler than Old Irish. Speaking as a native Cantonese speaker.

I totally agree.

Try thousands of years... goes back to Anatolia...

How do you mean pre dates English by 1500 years? What were the Angles Saxons or other Germanic tribes etc speaking at that time then ?

It doesn’t predate English, that’s not how languages work. What a stupid comment.

No, it does not, modern Irish and Scots Gaelic are very different from Old, it is the same with Cymraig (Welsh), the modern language is very different from Old Welsh, enough so that modern Welsh speakers find it very difficult to understand Old Welsh when it is spoken, just as modern English speakers find it difficult to understand much spoken Old English. No language remains unchanged over the course of a thousand and more years, and Irish and Scots Gaelic are NOT exceptions to this rule. The only possible exceptions, and even then not fully, are dead languages not usually spoken aloud any more. Good example being Latin and Ancient Greek. Indeed the fact that these are dead languages, so change very, very slowly over time is one of the primary reasons they are both used for in the Sciences for naming. People such as yourself ned to stop spreading myths such as this, the root languages of English are JUST as old as the roots of the Celtic tongues, and like English the Celtic languages have NOT simply stayed the same over time. Anyone who thinks so is a fool... And no, I am not English, there is a REASON I used Cymraig instead of Welsh for my native tongue.... It is the correct word and does not come from an Anglo Saxon word meaning foreigner....

​@@marypetrie930 an early Germanic dialect. The Irish language was definitely in existence when was later to become the English language was just a regional dialect in northern Germany.

Modern Irish: Gaoth ard fhuar

Yeah, /d/ going to /ð/ first and then merging with /ɣ/ makes a bit more sense.

Thank you very much!

Same 😌

Latin sounds like proto-Celtic!

Nobody knows for sure what it sounded like.

caol le caol, leathan le leathan

Fair point.

I have the same problem, sadly.

isn't it fun ?

He didn't say that Irish lost its P sound, he said Gaelic retained the loss of P... But yes, the Brythonic P is a secondary development.

​@@HenrikBergpianorganistIt's misleading though, because Brythonic also retained the loss of Proto-Indo-European /p/. Whether it later redeveloped it by some other means is immaterial (which Old Irish also did by borrowings from Latin).

It is a bit misleading for sure but not a whopper of a mistake. Overall I think he did a reasonable job. I am not perfect and I doubt anyone could give a perfect presentation. You're welcome to try and we'll let you know how well do!!!

The Gaelic for father is athair which is an example of the loss of initial p but the example he gave was wrong. He gave an example of the kw - pw sound shift which defines q and p Celtic branches.

@@damionkeeling3103Fine amd I agree, but overall the presentation was good. If you think you can do a better job have at it. Try not to make a mountain out of a mole hill.

The Latin word “gladius” is understood to be derived from the Gaulish language.

Interesting, thank you

The word glaive sounds similar to the Welsh word cleddyf for sword. If you took out the dd which happens in languages you get cleyf. The f in Welsh is pronounced like a v and so it could be cleyv. French: Glaive Welsh: Cleyv.🤔

@@gandolfthorstefn1780 that's very interesting, it's like our languages are cousins without even knowing it

@@yohanrives3752 That's a very good analogy. Unknowing cousins discovering each other.

*a Chaoimhín and make sure you aren't forgetting your fadas, they are very important in comprehending words :p (se is actually a short form of seo, and is read differently from sé) Your Irish is not bad at all! Good on you for making an effort, we definitely need to see more of that.

@@iavv334 Thanks for the impromptu Gaeilge lesson. Fada's weren't working on the device I was using. Duh.

​@@iavv334Nach aisteach an duine thú. Ar a laghad scríobh sé í ngaeilge agus tá tusa dhá ceartú í mbearla.

@@michealbreathnach2928 Dá mb'fhoghlameoir na teanga Chris O'Leary, canathoabh go thabharfainn dó cúnamh nach féidir leis a thuiscint? Tuigim gurbh fhearr linn Gaelainn a úsáid dosna freagrachaibh agus sin i nGaeilscoil, ach is in UKposts comment section atáimid a chara

Yes - Greek to me also

The further back in time we go the Indo-European languages, to my ear, begin to sound increasingly similar. At what period did the "common" indo-european language start to splinter into it's different paths ? 3000BC ? , 2000BC ?, 1500 BC?

That's a bad association

@@mercianthane2503 why?

They aren’t close at all. He is clearly the Celtic Woden.

@@gustafduell4948 Lugh's origins are mithraic. He is a deity commonly associated with oaths, justice and order, basically his true equivalents are norse Týr, roman Deus Fidius and Vedic Mithra and Dharma.

I did not mean it is the same but i think it is more to the namne Loke than we know. Why else the utgårda-loke, company on travels, creation of man, laugarday and the lin laukar runik inscriptions? Or mayby it is a heiti/kenning- an onion has many layers, as the complex world? Trixter i always read and just find it sounding stupid. In those days the learned surely knew of both nordic and gaelic gods. Otherwise i am glad found this and taelisins map channels. Gaelic mythology is rather unknown to me. Nordic litterature on the pre christian religion is often rather narrow.

i meant druid. and listening to this at 2x is mindbending. 😂