Scottish Gaelic

Facts

  • Language: Scottish Gaelic
  • Alternate names: Gaelic, Scottish, Gaelic (Scots), Scottish Gaelic, Scotch-Gaelic, GĂ idhlig, Gaelic, Scots Gaelic, Albannach Gaidhlig, Erse, Gadhelisch
  • Language code: gla
  • Language family: Indo-European, Classical Indo-European, Celtic, Nuclear Celtic, TGB Celtic, Insular Celtic, Goidelic, Modern Goidelic, Eastern Goidelic
  • Number of speakers: 20,000-30,000
  • Vulnerability: Threatened
  • Script: Latin script.

More information:

    Status rising since the establishment of Scots Parliament in 1990s.

    Scottish Gaelic is spoken in United Kingdom, Europe.