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Le gaélique en Nouvelle-Écosse
La Bretagne Linguistique, 1991 The Gaelic language that barely survives in Nova Scotia today is the legacy of the Highlanders who came to this land, previously populated by the Micmac tribe and the Acadians, in the late 18th century.
Kenneth E. Nilsen
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Am Buadhfhacal Meadhan-Aoiseach Meranach agus mearan, mearanach, dàsachdach, dàsan(n)ach na Gàidhlig
Scottish Studies, 2017 The epithet meranach is found in Irish sources from the eleventh century. The same element may be present in the Irish surname Merna(gh) and perhaps also in the early thirteenth-century Scottish epithet Marrenah.
Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh
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Irish English Habitual Do Be Revisited
Linguaculture, 2010 This article examines the category of present habitual in Irish English, Irish and Scots Gaelic. The latter two are frequently claimed to have had an influence on the development of the tense and aspect systems of their respective contact varieties of ...
Patricia Ronan
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Scottish Gaelic revitalisation: Progress and aspiration [PDF]
Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2021 This review considers the revitalisation programme for Scottish Gaelic (referred to simply as ‘Gaelic’ [ɡalik] by its speakers) which has gathered pace since the 1980s. Gaelic is a minority Celtic language with approximately 58,000 speakers in Scotland (Scottish Government 2015) and 1,500 speakers in Canada (Statistique Canada 2016). Gaelic in Scotland
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Gaelic in the New Scotland: Politics, Rhetoric and Public Discourse [PDF]
Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, 2001 This article considers the position of the Gaelic language in the new political context in Scotland created by the opening of the Scottish Parliament in 1999.
McLeod, Wilson
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Rev. William Matheson and the Performance of Scottish Gaelic ‘Strophic’ Verse
Scottish Studies, 2013 The late Rev. William Matheson's lifelong fascination with the performance of Gaelic songs in so-called 'strophic' metres ultimately resulted in his recording seventeen such songs for the album Gaelic Bards and Minstrels, No. 16 in the Scottish Tradition
V.S. Blankenhorn
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Clans, Families and Kinship Structures in Scotland—An Essay
Genealogy, 2022 Anyone who has visited a Scottish Games or Gathering in North America will be struck by the number of Clan societies occupying tents around the Games ground and participating in a “Parade of Tartans”.
Bruce Durie
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Learning and Remembering Gaelic Stories: Brian Stewart
Scottish Studies, 2013 Questions about how Gaelic storytellers have learned, remembered and performed their tales are key to understanding the Gaelic narrative tradition. This article examines the experience of Brian Stewart, a Scottish Gaelic storyteller, and the techniques ...
Carol Zall
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An Online Linguistic Analyser for Scottish Gaelic [PDF]
, 2020 This paper describes the Gaelic Linguistic Analyser, a new resource for the Scottish Gaelic language. The GLA includes a tagger, a lemmatiser and a parser, which were developed largely on the basis of existing resources. This tool is available online as the first component of the Scottish Gaelic Toolkit.
Loïc Boizou, William Lamb
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