I think Julie Fowlis is a fantastic artist because she has a beautiful singing voice.I love her Gàidhlig songs as well as her English songs.I like groups like Clannad and Altan because they sing in Gaelic and English.I didn't know Gaelic could sound so beautiful until now.I'm glad Gaelic is being sung more now.Gàidhlig gu bràgh😊
With each and every song and performance... Julie Fowlis and her band of minstrels press upon all that I love about music and that what these artists press upon catches a wondrous fire! Warming all of me.
I only discovered yesterday this wonderful Music while I was trying to find some good Celtic Music and here we are... I found those beautifull songs and music. I cannot get enough of it, it is just wonderful, makes my heart jump! Gaelic sounds beautiful...try to keep the Gaelic language alive!
A little late... Both Irish and Scots Gaelic come from the Celts, I'm sure you knew that. There are other languages that also come from the same people like Welsh, Breton (spoken in Brittany, France), Manx and Cornish. Scots Gaelic, Gaeilge and Manx have the most in common. Many words in the three are pronounced the same, but spelled differently. Or vice versa. I can understand a lot of Scots Gaelic, having only learned and spoken Irish. Hope it helps!
JULLIE VIND JIJ OOK NIET DAT JIJ DE MEEST HEERLIJK DANS MUZIEK MAAKT IK VOEL ME TROTS OP JOU IK HOOP DAT WE IN DE TOEKOMST GENOEG TIJD IS VOOR ONS SAMEN IN DE LIEFDE EN VOORAL DE VREUGDE DANK JE WEL WOUTER
I think Scots and Irish Gaelic come from the same language but right now they are very different. Spanish and Italian come from the same language family, but they only understand each other orally. :D
Being the ignorant person I am, I wanted to ask what the difference between Irish and Scotish Gaelic is; is it like a separate dialect (where people can understand each other to a certain extent) or practically a whole other language entirely?
Middle English is actually a development of Norman French, which is where the Latin element of modern English originates. Dutch is Germanic. Flemish and Frisian are close to French, so you're right there. As I have said, Celtic languages are Germanic and - like the architecture and jewellery patterns - came from the area between southern Denmark and Northern Germany.
The Celts were actually Germanic and didn't have anything to do with the British Isles (little-known archaeological fact!). Ancient Britons are now generally termed as the Brythonic. Manx is a variant of Gaeilge. Cornish is more like Welsh, which both predate all forms of gaelic, but nobody knows which of the two came first.
Celtic actually describes a specific design pattern from jewellery and architecture that has been used across Europe but originated in what is now Northern Germany (the Celtoi as described by the Greeks). Native languages of the British Isles (i.e. Gaelic - Scots, Manx and Irish - Welsh, Cornish and Early/Middle English) are Brythonic languages. I myself am British with roots in Wales, England and the Borders of Scotland. The "Celts" never touched British soil.
I know this is a 9 year old comment but Scottish Gaelic (not Scots; that's germanic), Manx, and Irish are not Brythonic languages. They are Goidelic languages. Welsh, Cornish, and Breton are Brythonic as well as Pictish which has gone extinct. Early/Middle English was also Germanic and where Scots and English Descend from!
Celtoi was the Greek name given to a tribe in what is now Southern Denmark and Northern Germany. The term "Celtic" is a complete misnomer regarding the British Isles. Edward Lhuyd attached the word Celt to Indo-Europeans that did not speak Latin or Greek, and so became a massively overused umbrella term. The original Celtoi were Germanic and did not spread genetically any further than what is now the Netherland, Germany and the Czech Republic. The correct term is Brythonic for Ancient Britons.
The word 'Celt' in its popular usage is a total misnomer. Historically and archaeologically, the Celts (derived from the Greek word Celtoi) were a tribe inhabiting what is now Southern Denmark, and definitely had a Germanic language. Their style (including the correctly named Celtic Cross) swept across Europe with no fewer than 8 different populations adopting it as their own. Today, only one remains: Britain. They adopted the Celtic style, but are by no means Celtic themselves.
@bigjesse1985 Jesus wept would you please read a book! Even Wikipedia would give you a bit of a clue. Brythonic and Goidelic (or P an Q if you prefer) are linguistic terms applied to the celtic languages of britain and ireland, not to any scandinavian language. In terms of material cultures (meaning archeology) celtic and proto-celtic languages are linked to the urnfield, then hallstatt, then la tene cultures. Keltoi was first applied to people in southern france.
Yes and no. The Celts certainly were central Europeans, which doesn't make them or their languages Germanic, and they didn't migrate much into Britain. The people of Wales etc. are not (genetically) significantly more Celtic than the English. But as the predominant culture in Europe before the Romans they spread their languages all over, including to Britain. The Saxons, who were Germanic, would do the same centuries later to create English.
