The Celtic Languages 

***** I see that the guy I replied to deleted his comment when he realised he's wrong. Hahaha!!!

I am so glad you got someone to fix that! Is lack of accent and mistakes instantly annoyed me.

+Adam Wyse Literally every source I referenced uses the term "British Isles" to refer to both Britain and Ireland. Maybe you disagree with that, but I'm not sure what I can do about it. I'm certainly not the one deciding these things.

Adam Wyse It is actually. Its not part of Britain however.

The Light Bearer 1969 Is this reply aimed at me? If so I know I didn't invent the names, they were there before me. But I understand them.

Tziu Ricky Incredible!

Tziu Ricky I remember that when I worked in a big restaurant in the Basque Country my boss asked to me to give advising by speakers about wrong parked cars. He "asked" (allways in Basque) to do it only in Spanish, but I allways did first in Basque and second in Spanish.

Mikel Arana Etxarri Hello my Basque friend! That's despicable that he wanted you to speak in Spanish first. However, in your country you are still lucky! In Sardinia if you speak the Sardinian language in public, most people would freak out and call you impolite or "a rude shepherd / retrograde caveman". Even more strange, girls / women are the ones that hate the language the most, so they forbid it to their chlidren and force them to speak only Italian. I'm glad my grandparents couldn't speak Italian and I spent a lot of time with them, otherwise I wouldn't even know how to speak my own language.

***** That's so sad. People are ignorant about their own cultural heritage; then tears will come, when gone with the wind.

Sounds like you encountered some "west brits" as we like to call them.

I'm trying to learn Cymraeg with Duolingo & Say Something in Welsh. The last one i found especially helpful because you get to speak Cymraeg. As you are in the UK you can use the S4C & BBC sources that i on the continent have no access to. There also are Cymraeg speaking groups all over the UK. Please don't give up, it's too beautiful & needs support, particularly from the rest of the UK. Cymru am byth!

Hey it's not your fault man and there's no shame In it, from what I can see in your comment you're just as much a Welshman as any who speak Welsh. I learned Welsh in school and to be honest I wish I'd learned it later in life as there are so many English words I simply don't know, it's quite awkward when you're discussing a scientific topic and someone asks you a simple term and you're left guessing. don't give up on the dream, it might be a challenge and maybe you only pick up a few things but at least you tried your best man and that's all anyone can ever ask of themself. I read up on the Patagonian Welsh interesting stuff really, they have their own version of the Eisteddfod and hen wlad fy nhadau amongst other things.

@@iammcwaffles5514 Good for you, young person. You will inspire a lot of people here.

The times we could say that "Hey Argentina is far more linguisitc tolerant than democratic great britain!"

@@LeafHuntress me to, but its very hard, must be because its different to every language i know (French, Spanish, english)

Poor Welsh, it’s (like all Celtic languages) Beautiful!

as a filthy englishman, I've never encountered a sense of distaste toward any of the gaelic languages (other than the odd joke of it sounding like a seizure)

Mae'n brill dy fod yn gallu ateb e yn Ffrangeg!

I have heard that the greatest number of Welsh-speakers are in the northwestern parts of the country. I would like to ask if this is true, and if so, can one go into a store or ask someone for the time, etc. and take it for granted that one will be understood?

There are around the same amount of Welsh speakers in the north and south but there are less people in the north so it's more likely to come across someone who can speak Welsh. I couldn't give you an answer on wether you could because I live in the south but I reckon you probably could.

As a language aficionado, I think that Catalan sounds like the best of Aragonese and Southern French.

mhothaigh mé a lán mothúcháin (mar tírghrá) nuair a léigh mé do ráiteas

It can also benefit in other ways, as an official language of the UK you have the right to use it. I had a friend at an English university whose first language was Welsh who the university had to give extra time to in exams as the were unable to mark them in Welsh so he had to do them in English (despite the fact that he had had to sit most of his high school exams in English at his school in Wales but got no extra time there).

Ardderchog !

+Pomp Mag Unfortunately Welsh only has official status within Wales (and that's despite areas of Shropshire still supporting Welsh language communities), so that story is most likely untrue.

Mae Iwerddon yn mynd yn annibynnol !!

@@PerriririMae Iwerddon eisoes yn annibynnol. Ond am y chwech sir, wrth gwrs.

Scottish Gaelic is also on Duolingo.

Arbennik:)

Celtic etymology comes from the verb cel(alb)-open, c(alb)'-that and el(alb) lighted, celt(alb)-blown, white people, Albions, Scottland until 1060 AD was called Albania, by the son of Brutton, the nephew of Eneas the King of Dardanians(Albanian tribe) in the war of Troy that moved North and created Great Brittain, read the poem of Virgil "ENEIDA"

T'as raison. Je suis en train de préparer un exposé sur les langue minoritaire en France et je trouve dommage qu'il y ait autantes de cultures qui sont subtilement discriminés par la société. Même s'il y a quelques efforts de renforcer les langues régionales, on ne peut pas nier qu'un usage "approprié" et préféré par beaucoup de locuteurs natifs du francais

Le problème que j'ai avec l'apprentissage du Breton, c'est que c'est trop "vieux jeux", même sur Internet. Il y a peu de ressources et peu de ces ressources sont "intéressantes" pour les nouvelles générations, selon moi. C'est une langue très difficile à apprendre, mais pour les mauvaises raisons et cela devrait changer ! Même les initiatives pour l'enseigner sont rares ou peu accessibles, que cela soit dans Paris ou vers la Bretagne elle-même.

Fascinating, there is a Norwegian word Nydelig, meaning wonderful. I wonder if that is related to the word you show in different Celtic languages here.

@@MarkusHolst1960 👍. Nedeleg/Nadelik/Nadolig mean "Christmas" and Laouen/Lowen/Llawen mean "Merry" or "happy".

Nollaig Shona in Irish Gaelic

@@gachrudgaelach 👍

@@lokstreet4576 te zo an vrezhoneg ?

@reechart How much do they understand it? I suppose it should be way less than Welsh

Breton is completely different to Gaelic. It is closest to Cornish (mutually intelligible) and then Welsh (not mutually intelligible).

Dia is Muire dhuit

Ive met several Bretons and Basques abroad who felt an affinity with Ireland but many Irish people outside of the Irish speaking community would have little knowledge of these cultures.

Da iawn , a fi hefyd

It seems like it’s doing well. I hope it continues.

The same saying in Irish goes, “Tír gan teanga, tír gan chroí.”

Mitzqua Nó Tír gan teanga, Tír gan anam.

There are a number of college students in Provo, Utah, USA each semester that are learning to speak and read in welsh! We are helping to keep it alive! Er gwaetha pawb a phopeth, rin ni yma o hyd!!

That's pretty cool, not many languages have been brought back from extinction

Cornwall should definitely be devolved from England so that it's status as a former country is recognized.

@@jackalnerf6230 It'll never happen, it's seen as a fundamental part of England...

@@Jellygamer0 I know, but I still think it should happen ideally.

@@Jellygamer0 well the cornish identity seem to be growing. Every year more and more school students identify as ethnically cornish, and with the language the cornish culture is staying strong.

Agreed. Half my neighbours are Cree, Saulteaux or Metis. Very few of the younger generations can speak their ancestral languages. For that matter I only know a few words of Scots Gaelic.

While it’s true celtic nations were suppressed and aided in their linguistic destruction, it’s not too late to bring them back. Learn the language of your choice and have at least 3 kids to ensure linguistic survival. We can do this

Mostly England's fault

@@haltdieklappe7972 yeah we need to be the foundation, so the next generation can have an easier time learning these language, thankfully even since this video slot of work has been done

@@calumpatrick319 the only real way to ensure a smaller language’s survival is by having lots of kids so that you essentially create native speakers. The people that want these languages to survive but aren’t willing to have kids are the reason the language is dying

im german and im learning some irish on duolingo :)

@@thenewhope8171 :) keep going man

@@thenewhope8171 Good luck with that 😀 I gave up months ago. They have no expenation on how to pronounce the words. It is really frustrating not to be able to read properly.

@@afterought6275 Don't give it up, Duo is somewhat good for practicing, but it musnt be your main resource. I'm learning it, all of it through the internet, and I'm in Mexico. I can point you out to resources if you want

@@carloseduardojimenez7656 would you mind sharing your irish language resources? :)

Gallout a rez deskiñ Brezhoneg :) Tu peu apprendre le breton :) Je sais pas ou tu vie donc j'aurais du mal a te conseiller mais par exemple a paris il y a la mission bretonne qui donne des cours de breton, en Bretagne i y a la licence de Breton a rennes 2 et a L'UBO a brest. Il existe aussi les formations 6 mois (accessible a tous ), ou encore la possibilité d'essayer avec des méthodes je conseille personnellement celle de Marc kerain " Ni a gomz Brezhoneg" et pour compléter on recherche pas mal de licencié, Dons pour ceux qui veulent du boulot et près a bouger un peu en Bretagne c'est un bon plan :)

Rétablissez la Monarchie en France. Si les Bretons se sont battus contre les Républicains pendant la Révolution (révolte des Chouans), c'est parce que la République avait pour mission de détruire TOUTES les cultures et coutumes régionales. En tant que Québécois, je voudrais un Roi en France pour remplacer la Reine d'Angleterre. On n'est pas Anglais ici donc Elizabeth II peut rester reine dans le reste du Canada mais PAS au Québec 😣

Les rois de France n'ont pas aidé les Bretons. Quand la monarchie a été rétablie après la révolution, la politique de destruction des langues régionales s'est continuée sans interruption.

Ya d'ar Brezhoneg !

Interesting :--) Here in Wales we were forbidden to Speak Welsh (Cymraeg) by the English.... Also "Wales" is not a nice term....it was a name used to describe us...it means outsiders or something....our Country is called Cymru. :--)!

Celtic etymology comes from the verb cel(alb)-open, c(alb)'-that and el(alb) lighted, celt(alb)-blown, white people, Albions, Scottland until 1060 AD was called Albania, by the son of Brutton, the nephew of Eneas the King of Dardanians(Albanian tribe) in the war of Troy that moved North and created Great Brittain, read the poem of Virgil "ENEIDA"

No government can save a language if there is no reason to learn it.

That's because unlike in Ireland (and indeed Wales with Welsh) Gaelic was never a universally spoken language in what is now Scotland, being mainly confined to the west of Scotland, where the Dalriadan Irish settled. The language never really penetrated east over the Grampian Mountains to a massive degree, where the Picts spoke a different Celtic language (sadly now lost). The Eastern Picts had quite a bit more interaction with their Anglo-Saxon neighbours to the south who of course spoke English so it became a bigger influence on that part of Scotland. So by the time the Gaels to power over Pictland (Kenneth I), and Acotland was formed, Gaelic was the language of court, but English had become the language of the plebs in Eastern Alba

A bheil thu bho na h-eileanen siar?

You guys really need to be independent cuz I'd dislike to see another amazing country lose its culture because of English again

Snog!

Sgonneil 😄

Celtic etymology comes from the verb cel(alb)-open, c(alb)'-that and el(alb) lighted, celt(alb)-blown, white people, Albions, Scottland until 1060 AD was called Albania, by the son of Brutton, the nephew of Eneas the King of Dardanians(Albanian tribe) in the war of Troy that moved North and created Great Brittain, read the poem of Virgil "ENEIDA"

Yes thats due to the two counties run by the Welsh political party 'Plaid Cymru' of Yns Mon (Anglesey) and 'Gwyneth' in N West Wales have Welsh speaking only schools so we all speak Welsh, and use English by De fault only.

@@RhysapGrug ynys mon* Gwynedd*

@@andyh6849 it's my phone has no Google translate plus if I write I'm Welsh for some reason it don't recognise the word so changes it for, at times I forget to do a word check. But you seem to know what saying. No da.

@Fnord Fnordington Yes in whole of the uk but not in Wales where Welsh is doing very well thank you

@iuvenis animo Poles are not going to make you a minority in your own country at your expenses.

@@alcurtis93 Some people learn languages just out of personal interest in culture or literature

@@alcurtis93Sad that some people think that languages somehow have to be 'useful' in the world! Language is a part of your identity, hence the historic way that the 'enemy' forced the conquered to learn their languages, and in many cases made it illegal to use their own. I am always wound up when I read comments that treat language as merely some kind of tool. Also, there is a sense that you can't do both. I love Russian, and learn it for that purpose, because I have little use for it. I also took the opportunity to learn Welsh. Yes, I have Welsh ancestry, but I learn it because it is a beautiful language.

@@silvamayflower you're right. I've deleted my comment :)

It's hard for small languages to survive in this increasingly globalized and anglofied world

Not in Wales. 500,000 speakers in a country of 3 million people and up to 800,000 in total that can either speak fluent or know bits of Welsh.. The Welsh language is growing in Wales and the Welsh parliament has set a target of getting up to a million people in Wales speaking Welsh fluently with in the next 25 years. The only reason why Welsh declined is because England made it illegal.

justcarcrazy in the movie "Brave" the lullaby "Noble Maiden Fair" has Scottish Gaelic lyrics, and especially with the language's current status I think that is so important.

William Llwyn thats great, i hope you can try for independence too

@celtic dread the welsh sometimes "Hate" the English. in history, I was taught that all English people were slimy, wretched piles of sewage, I was even taught that english was the language of the devil.

I speak Persian, English, and German. Welsh is going to be my fourth language. I'm even thinking about continuing my education at Cardiff University so I can practice Welsh more. I adore the culture and the language so much.

If you speak Arabic, then learning a Celtic language will be a bit easier for you since the Celtic and Semitic languages have some striking grammatical similarities. LangFocus actually made a video about it.

+DdraigGochArg Thanks for the info! Don't worry, your English seems almost perfect. I notice that your avatar is the Welsh flag. Do Welsh-speakers in Argentina closely identify with Wales?

Langfocus I'm from Chubut too, and my school's headmasters is a Welsh descendant. She once told me that the Welsh community here has some traditional things that don't exist anymore in Wales.

***** I participated in the Eisteddfod in my local city! But I recited some kind of poem from Argentina, I don't remember, haha. I do remember that some people were speaking Welsh during the day, and since then, I wanted to learn Welsh just because I liked how it sound. I'll try to do my best next year.

WOW, you learn something new everyday! I knew during 1700-1900 Germans, Irish did alot of immigrating to South and Central Americas but I didn't look into all the other European immigrant groups. Spain and Portugal is just a given as to large populations relocating.

I am Argentinian too (Buenos Aires), and I am happy to know that Welsh it's really strong in chubut. Also we have a few towns around the country where German it's widely spoken, and several descendants communities where their languages are still being used, as Chinise, Korean, Armenian, Hebrew, Ukrainian, etc I am half Armenian and half German, so, at the end, Argentina It's multicultural country and that makes us rich. Espero poder viajar pronto a Gaiman y Trevelin, Ia Patagonia es tremenda, saludos desde caba y me alegro de ver que Otros compatriotas siguen este canal.

Porth Madryn. Justamente tenia prejuntas sobre los Gales de Patagonia

There's a city called Gaiman in the Chubut province where everything is Welsh

i just wrote the same!!! welcome celtic people here, were they coexist very pacific way(not as a british empire..malvinas are argentinas!!!) with tehuelches, natives people. As an argentine with roots from italy and spainlikemayority peoplehere i wish more celtic people here-- welcome!!!

Tbh yeah 💀💀 that’s basically it.

No, I think extinction basically comes from "Your language provides me with more opportunities than mine does. I want to learn it". Linguistic Darwinism, if you like.

@@istvanglock7445 origionally it most likely came from “Hey, you there, speak my labguage so that I can say I have more land than the rest of these people”

@@istvanglock7445 I agree but another reason is "I am better, my language is better. Unlearn and forget your language for you and your offspring or else"

Governments have historically banned languages that were seen as of low prestige or savage which is why languages become extinct easier

Ich bin auch nur ein deustcher, wie geht's?

Yes!!! I am proud to say I have completed the course! Well, I completed what is available, they will be adding more lessons later. Tha Gàidhlig gu math sgoinneil!

@@findlayrobertson4985 That's German, isn't it?

@@rraine4195 I've been learning Scottish gaelic for a couple weeks. Does that say 'Galeic is good and brilliant'?

@@andrewjennings7306 Almost. Gu math together means quite as opposed to good. Scottish Gaelic is quite brilliant.

I've started to learn Cymraeg on duolingo. Very interesting how you Celtic people use VSO instead of SOV just like most of Indo-Eouropeans. Bore da, and greetings from 🇵🇱

I find most Germanic and Romance languages to be overrated.

@watergod 83 I actually really dislike all Romance languages except Italian (and latin)

Martial Kintu the Romance languages are overrated to hell and back, no doubt, but the Germanic languages really aren’t nearly as overrated and some like Icelandic and Faroese even get overlooked in their own right but yeah overall they’re still not as underrated as Celtic languages, I’ll give you that.

As someone who speaks a romance language I'd have to say that Spanish is the language for me

diolch, mae nhwna dda I ty I dwuaed.

I wish this was me only with Scottish Gaelic.😔 Even in today's age of you tell someone (usually an elder in the lowlands) that you are learning Scottish Gaelic, they take the piss. Like I'm meant to be embarrassed of learning the language of the land. I would be elated if I was fluent, walked into a shop and we both just speak Scottish Gaelic

English is an invasive garbage that has to be eradicated from Wales. You have any right to study everything in your own country Wales in your mother tongue!

Esteban Bernal Es una pena que no lo mencionara! Porque es una comunidad bastante importante en muchos aspectos (han nombrado pueblos y ciudades) y aún mantienen viva gran parte de su cultura

Patricio Iasielski Totalmente, siempre me pareció interesante como llegaron esos inmigrantes galeses al sur y mantuvieron su idioma y su cultura en un país tan alejado y tan distinto de su origen, y además siendo tan importantes para el desarrollo de la región en los inicios.

Esteban Bernal- Qué interesante y sorprendiente! Yo nunca sabía eso! Se aprende algo nuevo cada día! ;)

Esteban Bernal yes! Seen a travel show on Argentina and they went there! It was really cool

It's called Patagonia... I was about to comment that he missed them out! ;)

It's not really a province, more like a subcontinent.

That province is called Chubut and is in the Patagonia region. It has a huge welsh community.

5000 people isn't much.

There are only half a million people in Chubut, so yes it is.

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Dal ati

I can almost see dragons with this aesthetically pleasing writing!

Celtic etymology comes from the verb cel(alb)-open, c(alb)'-that and el(alb) lighted, celt(alb)-blown, white people, Albions, Scottland until 1060 AD was called Albania, by the son of Brutton, the nephew of Eneas the King of Dardanians(Albanian tribe) in the war of Troy that moved North and created Great Brittain, read the poem of Virgil "ENEIDA"

@@pts888 damn I thought Indian nationalists were cringe, but thanks for clearing my misconception, albanian nationalists are cringier

@@kartikpoojari7066 Open o book in your life and than speak

@@kartikpoojari7066 What about slaves coming in Europe, you need some history, a serb troll, 😂😂😂😂

@@pts888 ain't taking suggestions from some cringy balkan nationalists

Also, fhear and fhir were pronounced wrong. It is pronounced like the two consonants at the sentence beginning vanished. So instead of 'fear' being pronounced 'far', it's pronounced 'are' when spelled 'fhear'

Ya i mean if don't speak it outside school thats their business,but at least the state has done its best. yallawy

I agree, its very hard upstand a language if you never actually speak it, and the only time you ever use the language is in when learning it and when you are tested on it

I really find myself quite attracted to the Celtic culture, it is so beautiful and rad , so I decided to learn that sacred language ,hope you Irish people keep holding to it , your culture is wonderful , so is your land , not to mention the music , I love jigs and reels .

YellawayHD ...and by "the English" I'm guessing you mean the aristocracy and their direct subordinates? It'd be like if an IRA bomb went off, and people went around saying it was "The Irish". The ordinary people of England/Britain had no say in the matter, and were oppressed the same as everyone else.

Yeah, I'm sorry about that. That was an editing error. Somehow I put the two clips in the reverse order on the timeline in the editing software.

Although my family is from Scotland (my dad emigrated from Southern Scotland in his 20s), and I currently live in Nova Scotia, Canada, I keep running into Welsh, of all languages! A favorite book of mine growing up had a Welsh song in it (Howl's Moving Castle), another children's book set in Wales with a ghost in it...I can't remember the name but the last word was "Ffarwél", I lived in Wales for a year while my dad was doing some research there, and the list goes on. As a result, I've been kinda inspired to learn Welsh. I like the sound of it. But resources here are limited (it's hard enough to learn French here, and it's a national language!) Do you know any good online resources where I might begin to get a crack at it?

Don Raeside The BBC have a good Welsh course on their website. There was also a program called "The Big Welsh Challenge", but I'm not sure if that's accessible outside of the UK. Howl's Moving Castle is a lot of fun, and singing Calcifer's "funny little saucepan song" is a sure way to raise a smile.

I thought so too. In Breton it is: "warni" = on her. In dialectal English I have heard, "if it is in her to rain, it will rain" . In Breton, the common expression is: ma vé warni d'ober glaw, a rai glaw.

Gwyndaf Parri i am arnynt :)

ande mean under in gaulls andemantunum city of langre under the mantuna ... matuna ... marne ... marine mantuna ... the white land under the white land ....

Tirion Kerr I'm from Denmark, and I'm trying to learn Welsh. I love Celtic stuff and I want to go to Wales one day!

Tirion Kerr So basically you want the indigenous to go extinct

O bydded i'r hen iaith parhau.

@disturbedpentaholic you will love wales. I live in south Wales and the weather is always predictable with cold rain or drizzle barely snows. Basically like heaven.

Trysatron 3000 Sounds amazing.

The only problem I have being a fan of Paul's is trying to decide which language to study next. He makes them all seem so interesting!

@@dhatchbernier Do you know where is he from?

@@josealjndro He is from Canada 🇨🇦 but, now he lives in Japan 🇯🇵.

I know this was over two years ago, but I gotta commend the guy. Even though I have never met him, I am grateful for the work he has done. Thank you for sharing!

@@jaquequinn7780 I knew Brian as he came round the schools helping set up the Manx GCSE etc. and the Bunscoill Ghaelgagh in St Johns.

He came to Wales and ran a clourse for me in Manx. He was a wonderful humble man with a great love for the Manx language. I am privileged to have known him.

well irish was straight up killed but its natural normally

@@EannaWithAFada Yeah, all of these languages were persecuted, that's the worst part for me and why I speak Scots Gaelic.

I'm currently learning Irish, my ancestral language.

Celtic etymology comes from the verb cel(alb)-open, c(alb)'-that and el(alb) lighted, celt(alb)-blown, white people, Albions, Scottland until 1060 AD was called Albania, by the son of Brutton, the nephew of Eneas the King of Dardanians(Albanian tribe) in the war of Troy that moved North and created Great Brittain, read the poem of Virgil "ENEIDA"

Malik Dinata Scéal gleoite seo!

Where do you live now Malik?

Kamu masi bisa bahasa indonesia

Wow Malik that's real love, learning Cornish for your lover! And good on you. Good to know the Machy lads liked your Cornish.

Malik Dinata dia duit conas atá tú?

Take a look at the channel "NativLang" for that.

Why?... different group! ask him he recherches many languages, this time he happens the research Celtic ones!

Be more specific. America is a huge continent, dude.

Brandon Bohorquez That's asking too much dude.

NativLang only speaks about Mayan and Aztec languages. I'm looking forward to listen Paul's take on Quechua and its variants.

Recently discovered I have some ancestors from Pembrokeshire...I was always fascinated with Celtic mythology, specifically that of Wales when I was a kid, but I didn't know I had Welsh ancestors until recently.

@@punkmantra Have you learnt much about the Mabinogion and Arthurian legend? That's loads of Welsh folklore :D (though lots of countries claim King Arthur) In fact, I grew up on a street called Merlin's Hill, after Merlin the Wizard :D

Try the app Duolingo....

rez ket bil, l'accent c'est un détail Kalon vat dit evit da deskoni.

@@dertdert6190 Celtic etymology comes from the verb cel(alb)-open, c(alb)'-that and el(alb) lighted, celt(alb)-blown, white people, Albions, Scottland until 1060 AD was called Albania, by the son of Brutton, the nephew of Eneas the King of Dardanians(Albanian tribe) in the war of Troy that moved North and created Great Brittain, read the poem of Virgil "ENEIDA"

@@dertdert6190 whick language is what does it mean : Kalon vat dit evit da deskoni

Celtic etymology comes from the verb cel(alb)-open, c(alb)'-that and el(alb) lighted, celt(alb)-blown, white people, Albions, Scottland until 1060 AD was called Albania, by the son of Brutton, the nephew of Eneas the King of Dardanians(Albanian tribe) in the war of Troy that moved North and created Great Brittain, read the poem of Virgil "ENEIDA"

This is the branch of Albanian language, the mother of all the I.E languages

wow, happy news

Maith an fhear!

I have actually started putting all of my STRAVA cycle rides as Gaeilge. I have other users who are following me from different parts of the world who will see the Irish being used. I also make up new Strava "segments" in my local area and give them all Irish place names too :) Thank you for the post though, and from such a far away place too. I am Irish, and my son is half Tamil :)

@Anglia Alba Yes it is. Gaelic was even spoken in the lowlands at its peak (Middle Ages - post 10th century). Only the border areas and Lothian during the dark ages were part of that Northumbrian kingdom. So not even a third of the country. The fiefdom of Strath Cluth next to it was a Bretonnic one in the southwest of Scotland. The language of Gaelic became dominant when the kingdom of Dal Riada became influential. The Picts basically gaelicised themselves. It's not sure the Picts spoke a Bretonnic language before that (no written language left), as in that Pictish would have been a Bretonnic language related to Cumbric (extinct) and Welsh. Then again it certainly had nothing to do with English. The Old Saxons (invaded Britannia in the 5th century) didn't have that much of an influence in and on Scotland until Norman occupation, and the merging into the pidgeon tongue and culture Anglo-Saxon would become from the 11th century onwarth. Gaelic was still very much thriving up untill the 15th century in Scotland (language of Royal court and law). After that it went into decline through various antagonistic measures that were taken towards it by Scots (Inglis) lowlanders who thought to have "bettered" themselves having completely Anglicised. By which time Gaelic had receded to Highland and Island culture and clans alone. The term 'Scotti' itself is a reference to the Irish and thus Celtic culture that became dominant after the 8th century. Only after it became antagonised it starting being referred to as 'Erse' and an "inferior" language belonging to the "savage" clans as the Anglicised lowlands and nobility made that part of the propaganda against it. It was doomed after the Act of Union and treated very badly as it was solely associated from then onward with the Jacobite movement. From placenames to every token symbol monolingual Scots still wield today as typically Scottish (bagpipes, kilt (the big one, not the adapted smaller kilt you see today), haggis (unlike what a knobhead like Jeremy Paxman claims some English woman invented because it was mentioned in a cookbook), whiskey (Uisge Bheag)) are basically from that Goidelic culture. So yes, Scotland is a Celtic nation, but also an Anglo-Saxon one, and a Bretonnic one. Scotland isn't one thing, and never has been historically.

i just wrote the same!!! welcome celtic people here, were they coexist very pacific way(not as a british empire..malvinas are argentinas!!!) with tehuelches, natives people. As an argentine with roots from italy and spainlikemayority peoplehere i wish more celtic people here-- welcome!!!

@Anglia Alba demonstrably untrue. That was just the south, and then it was only for a short time.

Anglia Alba Rubbish. DNA tests show that there are over 100 different notable ethnic groupings in Scotland with Anglo-Saxon accounting for only 10% There are far more Norse, Celtic, Briton, Pictish DNA amongst Scots.

Celtic etymology comes from the verb cel(alb)-open, c(alb)'-that and el(alb) lighted, celt(alb)-blown, white people, Albions, Scottland until 1060 AD was called Albania, by the son of Brutton, the nephew of Eneas the King of Dardanians(Albanian tribe) in the war of Troy that moved North and created Great Brittain, read the poem of Virgil "ENEIDA"

Why you have Chinese dragon? Thats cultural appropriation !

That's an unfortunately common story (well, not the horse bit. Your sinn-seanair was a bit unique there :P). Here in Wales, one of the most effective language-destruction tools the British state had was in portraying the language as low status and backward. That, along with the Welsh-Not system and other things associated with "Brad y Llyfrau Gleision" as it's called, saw the language vanish from vast areas of south Wales in a generation.

I don't see the language your g-g-father spoke, as "scots gaelic" is an oxymoron: either scots (germanic ancestry) or gaelic (celtic origin), but which language is "scots gaelic"?

To distinguish it from Irish gaelic

So you vote for "gaelic", not for "scots". OK.

Yves22 Semantics. I understood precisely what the commenter meant.

Fi hefyd . Me too.

Same

@DysgwchGymraeg Dwi'n ddim yn siarad Cymraeg dda iawn. May I ask what your comment means? Diolch!

@DysgwchGymraeg Diolch eto ffrind!

Native Welsh speaker here willing to help keep my language alive

hopefully you correct this madness and are a breton speaker today? :)

Oh man, that makes me so sad, the fact they were probably taught in schools to be ashamed of their own ancestral language. 😭 And especially with Breton being such a beautiful language...

To get a job wouldn't you need to speak French?

​@@golden.lights.twinkle2329for the official french labour agency, asking for the breton language skill is a discrimination to french speakers and is then forbidden. But you can ask any non-regional language (german, english, dutch...).

I can't get too specific about a lot of things in a language family video, but those are things I might look at in language-specific videos.

rzeka What do you mean in particular?

Tell me about it.

rzeka welsh looks like someone banged their had against a keyboard tbh

I agree, right now I am using Duolingo and I am learning Irish out of curiosity and simple interest, but I have noticed at least to my eyes that Medieval Scottish Gaelic seems far easier to read and pronounce than Modern Scottish Gaelic, and Irish is simpler in spelling to an extent.

Dmitry Revenko My partner is a Welsh speaker and I learned most of my Russian by Duolingo ( it’s a great tool, although I believe you got to have the basics of a language to start learning by Duolingo )

Dmitry Revenko diolch, rwyn mor hapus i clywed pethau mod dda fel hyn

Swmae! As a native welsh speaker i admire and appreciate this decision, but i have to say i am not sure that duolingo is the best place to learn it from. i have noticed numerous mistakes there myself...

I found it hard enough to find someone to practice my Welsh when I lived in Wales.

Mike Lowe you must live in the south then

RawkHawkMcGawk『Deezy』 Am bi thu fhèin a' labhairt na Gaeilge nuair nach eil thu san sgoil? (Tá brón orm - níl Gaeilge na hÉireann agam. Tá Gaeilge na hAlbainn agam.)

***** Tha mi fileanta ann an Gàidhlig na h-Alba, agus dh'ionnsaich mi beagan Gaeilge (tro mheadhann na Gàidhlig!) aig a' cholaiste. Ged a tha mi air a' mhòr chuid dhem chuid Ghaeilge a dhìochuimhneachadh, tha gu leòr agam air fhàgail gus a leughadh (gu ìre!), agus an uair sin freagairt a sgrìobhadh sa Ghàidhlig agam fhìn! 😂 Bu toil leam Gaeilge ionnsachadh ceart latha de na lathaichean.

The thing that made me dislike Irish is the way the teachers (I went to a gaeltacht school btw) forced you to speak it. I don't like it because I know that it isn't necessary. Its like an ornament, its nice to look at and nice to have, but it doesn't do anything. It serves no purpose. The only time I find it useful is whenever I want to speak to my mum privately, whenever I'm in Dublin because no one knows what you're saying and that is exactly the point!

Doctor Robotix So you are a English bootlicker !? OFF WITH YOUR HEAD YOU TRAITOR !

Doctor Robotix I agree. It reminds me of my own situation (only with dialects, not languages).

Dara Ryan It's ridiculous how badly they teach the Irish language. I'm from the North but lots of my friends attended a Gaelscoil and even though we only left school in the last 1-2 years they are forgetting massive amounts of vocabulary rapidly. I have a uni friend from the south who speaks worse Irish after 12 years of being taught it than I speak Italian after 1 year of teaching myself. The key reason is that people don't use it in day to day life. If the Free State had adopted draconian measures after independence then Irish could have been revived as the day to day native language of the people. The fact that virtually the entire population of the south were Irish Catholics would have made imposing it relatively easy, and would have been a marked benefit of partition. I realise though that I'm part of the problem, I don't see myself ever learning Irish since there are many others I want to learn first and I don't see a use for it. My recommendation would be to stop treating it as an academic subject, and simply get kids speaking it in class. Force a child to do something and they do anything to resist but if Irish was made an optional subject without tests, with the sole goal of getting people conversant in it. Then I imagine Irish would start to do a lot better.

Adam Donaghy - Agreed, I'm from the north as well, did 3 years of Irish in school and forgot everything, started an evening course 6 months ago and already my Irish proficiency is much higher than it was in school. When learning is a desire as opposed to an imposition the process becomes much easier and more enjoyable

Dara Ryan Irish is taught really badly.

Dara Ryan, Yola had nothing (directly) to do with Flemish, though it was its own language. It split away from mainline English, IIRC, during the Middle English period. It's a pity it died out, as it was quite interesting. All we have left of it now is a few scattered manuscripts.

mrbandishbhoir It all depends on which school. I went to a very nice and prestigious french school as a kid which has made me almost 100% fluent in french. Only problem is my parents spent thousands of dollars.

Matthew Clarke I had no idea until this video that Cornish was an actual language.

Isn’t it dead?

Stewie Griffin it was, but it was heavily Revived and now loads of youngsters are leaning it like me and use it loads

he hasn't replied in two years due to the dangers of camborne

@@phalvorantos No it is actually growing in popularity

binaway thats really cool

How do they do it? It's interesting

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TiXINuf5nbI.html

They never count them at night though, because they would fall asleep quickly

It is from Cumbric and is called the Yan Tan Tethera system. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Tan_Tethera#Systems_by_region

Góat That is such a good point. Many of my classmates hate the language as it's very challenging because we don't hear it anywhere else :(

Thank you, as a leaving cert student you have summed it up perfectly. In French class, we actually learn grammar/verbs etc. Whereas in Irish, we are expected to already be fluent. I would actually like to learn Irish properly but the educational system doesn't currently facilate that. But at least making the oral worth 40% is a step in the right direction

Rían I agree. I loved learning Gaeilge outside of school, but both Jc and Lc Gaeilge were a pain in the arse.

when did we start using the word mom in Ireland?????????????

what the use of the word mom, Im Irish Ill use mam or máthair

As a Cornishman, I'm glad that I could recognise the first saying - Den heb tavas a gollas y dir (A man without a language has lost his land) - as being in my language, Kernewek/Cornish. Meur ras / Thank you for posting these proverbs in the different Celtic languages.

@@LaurelCanyon1969 Ditto as a Welsh speaker: "Den heb tavas a gollas y dir" = "Dyn heb dafod a gyll ei dir"

Cumbrian here and Tir Gan Teanga feels familiar, my original reply was to remark that the phrase may explain America :-D

The Irish version, "Tír gan teanga, Tír gan anam", translates to "A land without a language is a land without a name"

@@mea.wwwwww Yes, he actually said that

So, speak this on original. Hello of Brasil.

@@adoretit20 I have considered learning my ancestral languages, but I’m learning French right now. Ahora, eu aprendo o frances não tenho tempo por isso lingua. E, olà dos Estados Unidos!

@@-someamerican--1707 A propósito, eu disse "hello of". Não seria "hello from?"

@@adoretit20 em inglês você diz “hello from” “Hello from Brazil”. Never say “of” when talking about location.

Celtic etymology comes from the verb cel(alb)-open, c(alb)'-that and el(alb) lighted, celt(alb)-blown, white people, Albions, Scottland until 1060 AD was called Albania, by the son of Brutton, the nephew of Eneas the King of Dardanians(Albanian tribe) in the war of Troy that moved North and created Great Brittain, read the poem of Virgil "ENEIDA"

Eoin H I agree with you totally! Whenever we go to Spain my bro and I always end up speaking Irish (especially when we're talking about someone in the room! 😅) because you never know who speaks English! 😂

Supersassysalmon7 Exactly 😂 My sister and I do that too. It's like our own little secret code.

Eoin H I've noticed I do that. They say the Irish speak more Irish abroad than they do in Ireland! and I completely agree with you, the Irish teaching system really needs a re-jig if it's going to survive

Thank you, Michael! I’m glad you like it! 🙂

Oh, the Welsh audio samples are of 'Gog' Welsh. I'm a 'De' speaker (less nasally, and more sing-songy).

I have no more resources to learn Welsh. I live in the U.S.. only RU-vid. open to suggestions or recommendations that are viable. It's my heritage and hate to see it lost in the winds of time

@@wildghostoutlaw1595 Duolingo has an option for learning Welsh. It's free and you can do it online or in an app.

@@ig-nat-ius1891 Thanks, checking

Così anche in Italia. Gli emigrati che tornano dopo molti anni al paese d'origine parlano un dialetto più arcaico.

I used to live in Bristol and the first time I came to Cardiff, I was surprised to hear two old ladies in a shop speaking what sounded like Arabic! I then realised where I was and that it was Welsh (untrained ear hehe). I actually lived in Cardiff for almost two years a while later, and I knew a fair few Welsh speakers. I love that Wales has such a rich history, and the language definitely needs to be kept alive. I have Breton roots myself, and going to Britanny with my then Welsh partner was interesting - the place names are quite similar, for instance Landivisiau, which is just missing one L to make it Welsh ;)

It is the same situation in Irish schools learning Irish, kids become disengaged from the language and lose interest. From my own experiences and that of my parents experiences there is a lot of focus on grammar drills and learning things off by heart, sometimes without even knowing the meaning. After 13 years of learning there's still so many people with only basic knowledge because of this. When we learn foreign languages later on they're fresh, different, we watch movies in that language, learn about the culture, we engage in conversation more and in the space of 5 or 6 years we are at an intermediate level. Having said that of course there are a lot of people reviving the language and I myself am learning it again, i think the number of people speaking it fluently is definitely improving.

Do you have a list of those words please?

@@milenasovic thought so! Greetings from me too, originally from the Netherlands, but Hungarian and Slovakian

I've discovered as I've explored my ancestry how truly many they are that I need to keep alive. Like you I've studied Scottish Gaelic (I also like to refer to it as such and not simply as 'Gaelic'), but also Irish Gaelic (I'm certain calling it "Irish" was something the Norman English invented to divide us), Welsh, French, German (at least the Widdebersch and Pennsilfaanisch varieties), and Slovak. I and my fellow-Americans are lucky that we have such a melting pot. Of course, all of us here try to learn at least a little Spanish because 13% of Estadounidenses do so regularly.

You've hit on the key bit, Megan. It is the method of thinking that the language demand that expresses its utility.

Thomas Ellis Surely the world is flat. There can't be anyone on the other side.

Very good point - Patagonian Welsh is under pressure from their colonial Argentinian masters - shame. When I lived in Cardiff quite a few Welsh speakers would go out to Patagonia to visit the extant Welsh speaking Chapels. They should secede from Argentina - Its claim to Patagonia is weak - mere contiguity.

Lol, William Douglas, is that meant as a joke or do you really have such bad sources? "Colonial masters"? They're immigrants, you wouldn't expect the Irish to claim New York, would you? I live in Chubut, not that far from where the Welsh settled. If they ever had any chance of seceding, it would have been a hundred years ago. Now, most of their descendants don't even speak Welsh, or speak Spanish as their first language, and are as Argentinian as anyone else. The "Welsh" towns have people from all over the country (and other countries too), not only Welsh. And two small details you seem to completely ignore: first, the Welsh region is just tiny compared to the size of the whole Patagonian region. It would be hard to justify a claim on Tierra del Fuego, or Even Santa Cruz, lmao. Second, and a lot of Patagonia is in Chile. Go ask them how they feel about a your claim over Patagonia :'D But hey, most of them really value their ancestry (some a little too much if you ask me - take that as you might). I do agree that this country does nothing for the minority languages, be them form overseas settlers or from the native Amerindians. There are some laws that account for bilingual education, but in practice there is not much done about it.

@@frechjo "you wouldn't expect the Irish to claim New York, would you? " No, but Boston! ;-)

@@williamdouglas4775 Trollicious comment.

totally agree man. The history part made it very interesting. I like all of your videos but this one was way more interesting than I thought it to be.

Rybackz Exactly. We need more of these... even for the languages he already covered. A whole long episode only on the history of a language

Why would you receive eye rolls? Is it shameful in the American culture to respect and save cultural heritage of your origin country?

Rachel Taylor I live in Seattle where we have a Gaelic Society called Slighe nan Gaidheal. Given our close proximity to Vancouver B.C. and the many expat Scots who live there, a small, but vibrant community of Gàidhlig speakers of various levels are doing our best to help maintain the language. And, in doing so, we also learn about the native speaking culture. Slàinte mhor agad.

You have a very unique language and culture. I hope you can preserve it. Greetings from hungary