Scottish Gaelic

Details

Instance of

natural language, modern language

Subclass of

Goidelic

Country

United Kingdom, Canada, United States, Australia, New Zealand

category for films in this language

Category:Scottish Gaelic-language films

category for music in this language

Category:Scottish Gaelic-language music

described by source

Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)

different from

Scots, Scottish English

Ethnologue language status

2 Provincial

has grammatical case

direct case, oblique case

indigenous to

Edinburgh, Glasgow, Highland, Scotland

language regulatory body

Bòrd na Gàidhlig

linguistic typology

verb–subject–object, nominative–accusative language, stress-timed language, fusional language

native label

Gàidhlig na h-Alba, Gàidhlig

number of speakers, writers, or signers

57000, 60130

related category

Category:Scottish Gaelic pronunciation

topic's main category

Category:Scottish Gaelic language

UNESCO language status

3 definitely endangered

Wikimedia language code

gd

writing system

Latin script, Gaelic alphabet

Works in this collection (3)

• Kidnapped1886
• Waverley1814
• Rob Roy1817

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